Billcoke 2nd Gear January 10, 2013 Share January 10, 2013 I'm looking for free GPS maps for Australia, are Malfree and MalSing the only people that develop free maps? ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas 5th Gear January 10, 2013 Share January 10, 2013 There are many. Search for OSM and Australia MalSing and malfree mainly update free maps only for Malaysia and Singapore with lots of useful POIs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watwheels Supersonic January 10, 2013 Share January 10, 2013 Correction. Malfreemaps is a free map project community. If you say they develop the maps dan it will be no longer free. Plus they only do ASEAN country maps. I dun think Australia is one of them. If you Google you will find what you are looking for. Even iTunes have an offline map for Australia and it's free to download. Is it really that difficult? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 10, 2013 Author Share January 10, 2013 There are many. Search for OSM and Australia MalSing and malfree mainly update free maps only for Malaysia and Singapore with lots of useful POIs. Many thanks Bro http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmin.php Have you used OSM maps before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 10, 2013 Author Share January 10, 2013 There are many. Search for OSM and Australia MalSing and malfree mainly update free maps only for Malaysia and Singapore with lots of useful POIs. Downloaded the map and I can enable the map at Tools>Setting>Map>Info, but when I click at address icon, the error say "No Maps", why is that the case? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas 5th Gear January 10, 2013 Share January 10, 2013 (edited) Make sure you put in the right place. I didn't use Garmin for a long time, so can't remember le... Maybe can try other maps: I googled and found this http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=54 hope it helps! Edited January 10, 2013 by Nicholas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wadexu 1st Gear January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 why not buy a SIM card for $2/day with unlimitted data and national call and use the google map? save all the trouble to download the map. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrianli Hypersonic January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 No. Heard of Nokia's Ovi Maps??? Its free with every Nokia smartphone. It has maps for the whole world and can be used free w/o connecting to any network. http://store.ovi.com/content/100493 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjkbeluga 5th Gear January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 I spent quite some time looking for OZ map 3 years back as we planned to go to Perth. We got one for the Garmin but we do encounter blank maps on more suburbs and on newer expressways... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
inlinesix Supersonic January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 When i stayed in Melbourne for 3 wks, i buy Telstra sim card & use Google map. No issue le. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 11, 2013 Author Share January 11, 2013 why not buy a SIM card for $2/day with unlimitted data and national call and use the google map? save all the trouble to download the map. Need it for self drive so car GPS are easier to use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 11, 2013 Author Share January 11, 2013 I spent quite some time looking for OZ map 3 years back as we planned to go to Perth. We got one for the Garmin but we do encounter blank maps on more suburbs and on newer expressways... Compare Malfree/MalSing to Garmin, Malfree/Malsing are more up-to-date, so I'm looking for maps similar to Malfree/MalSing maps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF 4th Gear January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 When i stayed in Melbourne for 3 wks, i buy Telstra sim card & use Google map. No issue le. Yesterday I used Google to go to a nearby supermkt in an area I'm not familar with. The bloody google map route me to a much longer route but luckily my friend who went there earlier was able to direct me there...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckchong8 1st Gear January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 I'm looking for free GPS maps for Australia, are Malfree and MalSing the only people that develop free maps? Can downloads WAZE in your smartphone or Iphone, it totally free and no data plan, WiFi or GPS needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joajas Neutral Newbie January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 Can downloads WAZE in your smartphone or Iphone, it totally free and no data plan, WiFi or GPS needed. You sure?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstorm 1st Gear January 11, 2013 Share January 11, 2013 (edited) Downloaded the map and I can enable the map at Tools>Setting>Map>Info, but when I click at address icon, the error say "No Maps", why is that the case? I assumed you tried to install the OSMAustralia map. The map there is broken into many maps comprising of the various states within the country. I believed the each state map is usable on its own but you will have to combine all the maps together if you intend to have the map of the whole country. The site did not mention specifically how to go about doing it but from what I know and have done it in the past, you need to have the Gmaptool software to stitch them together. Compare Malfree/MalSing to Garmin, Malfree/Malsing are more up-to-date, so I'm looking for maps similar to Malfree/MalSing maps. There are many mapping communities around this region making maps for Garmin devices. You can find them here: Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand - www.malfreemaps.com Malaysia, singapore and Brunei - www.malsingmaps.com Australia - http://www.osmaustralia.org/index.php New Zealand - http://gwprojects.org/forum/index.php?sid=...46a7208f2febab5 Indonesia - www.navigasi.net Vietnam - http://www.gpsclub.vn/us2012/5_taibando.htm Rotweiler GPS Maps of Bali, HK, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mynmar, and Laos - http://rotweilermaps.com/maps.cfm Around the world - http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ There are many other community based mapping website which I have forgotten about but will post them here if I remember them. And also, if you know where to look for you can actually get original Garmin map of almost all the countries in the world. Some are unlocked map while others are locked and need some know-how to unlock or even join them together with the correct mapping softwares. Edited January 11, 2013 by Redstorm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 11, 2013 Author Share January 11, 2013 I assumed you tried to install the OSMAustralia map. The map there is broken into many maps comprising of the various states within the country. I believed the each state map is usable on its own but you will have to combine all the maps together if you intend to have the map of the whole country. The site did not mention specifically how to go about doing it but from what I know and have done it in the past, you need to have the Gmaptool software to stitch them together. There are many mapping communities around this region making maps for Garmin devices. You can find them here: Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand - www.malfreemaps.com Malaysia, singapore and Brunei - www.malsingmaps.com Australia - http://www.osmaustralia.org/index.php New Zealand - http://gwprojects.org/forum/index.php?sid=...46a7208f2febab5 Indonesia - www.navigasi.net Vietnam - http://www.gpsclub.vn/us2012/5_taibando.htm Rotweiler GPS Maps of Bali, HK, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mynmar, and Laos - http://rotweilermaps.com/maps.cfm Around the world - http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ There are many other community based mapping website which I have forgotten about but will post them here if I remember them. And also, if you know where to look for you can actually get original Garmin map of almost all the countries in the world. Some are unlocked map while others are locked and need some know-how to unlock or even join them together with the correct mapping softwares. Many thanks for the links. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billcoke 2nd Gear January 12, 2013 Author Share January 12, 2013 I assumed you tried to install the OSMAustralia map. The map there is broken into many maps comprising of the various states within the country. I believed the each state map is usable on its own but you will have to combine all the maps together if you intend to have the map of the whole country. The site did not mention specifically how to go about doing it but from what I know and have done it in the past, you need to have the Gmaptool software to stitch them together. There are many mapping communities around this region making maps for Garmin devices. You can find them here: I notice that the Garmin Australian map can only search by road names but not hotel names, is my search done correctly? but I don't have issues with my Garmin Singapore map. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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