AdvOSM Adventure Road Maps
For cars, motorcycles, SUVs, ATVs, 4x4s, and walkers, on- and off-road. For Garmin, Basecamp, OruxMaps, GPXSee, QMapShack. Routable, searchable. Updated biweekly, free. Automotive and handheld GPS versions. Every road and vehicle track in the world. 中文 / 日本語 / 한국어 / русский / العربية.
AdvOSM maps show paved roads like other road maps—colored by category—but they also analyze all available OSM data to reveal unpaved roads, unpaved portions of paved roads, service roads open to motor vehicles, tracks open to motor vehicles, tracks and service roads closed to motor vehicles, surface warnings, track grades, narrow roads, ford crossings, and weir crossings. Also shown are footpaths, protected areas, and steep terrain using (optional) 100m contour lines.
Screenshots in day mode and night mode from a handheld model (Montana), at 300m/1000ft zoom:
In addition to automatic routing, AdvOSM maps let adventurers navigate unpaved roads and tracks manually, while informed of their surface type, smoothness, grade, width, and accessibility, by looking at map details on the screen wherever this information exists in OSM. Adventure routes can be planned in Garmin Basecamp (free) that can be exported as GPX files to cellphone apps.
The USA, Australia, and Canada maps include, for reference, optional non-routable overlays outlining the Trans America, Trans Australia, and Trans Canada Trails. The Trail websites host routable GPX files that can be followed in a GPS with these maps.
Screenshots in day mode and night mode from an automotive model (Zumo), at 500m/1600ft zoom:
Adjacent maps can be loaded into a Garmin and will look and work like one map, with seamless interconnection and routing. The level of map detail is adjustable. The examples below show maximum detail.
Examples
Here, half the highway in a national park is unpaved, and some parts are dangerous in cars. Other maps don't show this:
Colorado, USA:
Compare with Garmin City Navigator NT:
El Carmen, Argentina:
Compare with OpenMapChest:
Harrowgate, England:
Compare with AlternativasLibres Map:
Jindabyne, Australia:
Compare with Bushwalk Map:
San Francisco, California:
Compare with BBBike Map:
Road Legend
A Motorway.
B Primary Road. Paved.
C Secondary Road. Paved.
D Tertiary Road. Paved.
E Minor, Residential, or Unclassified Road. Paved.
1 Unpaved Road. Includes seasonal roads, ice roads, and unpaved parts of all roads except service roads.
2 Track or unpaved service road. Not intended for traffic.
3 Track or service road closed to motor vehicles or motorcycles.
4 Service Road, paved or untagged. Includes alleys and driveways. Not intended for traffic. May have restrictions.
5 Trail or footpath not intended or permitted for vehicles.
6 Protected area with restrictions, such as national park, nature reserve, managed habitat, wildlife sanctuary, hunting area.
7 Trans America, Trans Australia, and Trans Canada Trails outline.
Surface Legend
S2 Intermediate surface; pavement repairs with small cracks, holes, or ruts; or compacted earth with shallow holes and ruts for over 2 km.
S3 Poor to bad surface; rough pavement with cracks, holes, or ruts; or uncompacted earth with holes, ruts for over 1 km.
S4 Very bad to horrible surface; pavement with deep cracks, holes, and ruts; or loose earth with rocks, deep ruts for over 500m.
S5 Very horrible to impassable surface; pavement with ruts, rocks, and obstacles; or earth with deep ruts, rocks, and obstacles for over 500m.
G2 Degraded pavement or gravel track with sand and clay for over 2 km.
G3 Mixed soft and hard surface track for over 1 km.
G4 Soft soil and grass track with some hard material for over 500m.
G5 Soil and grass track without hard material for over 500m.
N2 Narrow road with width 3m or less for over 2 km, or only one lane for two directions for over 2 km.
N3 Narrow road with width 2m or less for over 1 km.
N4 Narrow road with width 1m or less for over 1 km.
Ford Level stream or river crossing on gravel or earth, depending on season and weather.
Weir Reservoir or canal crossing on concrete. Road may be underwater and have steep embankments.
Surface warnings are searchable. If you enjoy deep ruts, rocks, and obstacles, search for “S5:”
Maps Download
To download, click this button:
You will be taken to the MediaFire folder. Maps are sorted alphabetically. Each map has four versions. They are labeled
with contour lines or no contour lines. And some are labeled with HD; HD is for automotive units with high-definition screens such as Nuvi, Zumo, Drive, and Tread, only. The standard maps, without HD, are for all other Garmins, including handheld units like Montana, Oregon, Edge, and GPSMap, and for software like Basecamp, GPXSee, Oruxmaps, and QmapShack. If you download the wrong version, the lines will be too thick or too thin. Some maps also have other language versions; instructions in those languages are at the bottom of this page.
To download a map, click the map name. The download might begin immediately (depends on bandwidth) but usually you will be taken to a MediaFire screen with a large blue Download button. Click on that blue Download button and the download will begin. After the download completes you might receive an antivirus warning like: "[Name of map].IMG could harm your device. Do you want to keep it or delete it?" Click "Keep." Garmin maps are harmless (some other kinds of IMG files are not).
Maps take a few minutes to download over WiFi broadband but can take an hour and fail over 5G mobile. If your downloads are slow or fail, use a download manager browser extension such as FDM.
The images below describe each map. Red lines show coverage. Purple lines show trails. To download a map, click the Download Maps button above.
AdvOSM USA
USA West (2300 MB)
USA Central (2400 MB)
USA East (2300 MB)
AdvOSM Canada + Alaska
(3500 MB)
AdvOSM Mexico + Central America
Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands (1300 MB)
AdvOSM South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela (3500 MB)
AdvOSM Britain + Ireland
United Kingdom, Ireland, Guernsey-Jersey, Isle-of-Man (1300 MB)
AdvOSM Europe
Europe A: Andorra, France, Monaco, Portugal, Spain (3500B)
Europe B: Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands (3300 MB)
Europe C: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland (2500 MB)
Europe D: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey (3200 MB)
Europe E: Aland Islands, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine, Belarus (3500 MB)
AdvOSM Africa
Africa A: Algeria, Azores, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia (3200 MB) العربية
Africa B: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Congo Democratic Republic, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, South Africa, St. Helena, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (3000 MB)
AdvOSM Middle East
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (1200 MB) العربية
AdvOSM South Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (2700 MB)
AdvOSM Silk Road Asia
China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia plus the adjacent border regions of Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey (3300 MB) 中文
AdvOSM Russia
Russia (3500 MB) русский
AdvOSM Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Mainland: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, West Malaysia, Singapore (1300 MB)
Southeast Asia Island: Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, East Malaysia, Brunei (1900 MB)
AdvOSM Australia + Oceania
New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Midway Atoll, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wake Island, Wallis and Futuna (1100 MB)
To use the maps in a Garmin GPS, download your maps (IMG files) into your PC. Connect your PC to your Garmin using a USB cable, or remove the microSD from your Garmin and connect it to your PC with a USB adapter. Copy your maps into the “Garmin” folder in the root directory of the microSD card. In a few models, this folder is named “Map”. Enable the maps in “Setup—Map Selection” of the Garmin menu. Most Garmins show each map as two or three maps in the selection screen: the lowest is the base map; the next is the contour overlay; the highest, if there are three, is the Trans [Country] Trail overlay. In rural areas, set “Map Detail” to Maximum.
To use IMG maps in Basecamp, you don't install them; you copy them to removable storage (SD card, thumb drive, or Garmin with a microSD card inside it) attached to the PC. Create a folder named “Garmin” in the root directory of the removable stoage and copy the IMG file into it. Basecamp will see the map when it starts, and you can select it under the Maps menu. Basecamp will not load IMG maps stored on a hard disk.
About Garmin automotive units: Line details such as paved/unpaved, open/closed, road/track, and protected areas (Road Legend above) are all visible, but most points of interest, including surface warnings (Surface Legend above), viewpoints, cattleguards, and fuel stations, are invisible. Compare these screenshots from a handheld, left, with an automotive unit (with HD map), right—none of the points on the left are visible on the right:
Garmin handheld units were designed for adventurers who navigate while looking at detailed maps. Automotive units were designed to guide drivers along a planned route to a destination, keeping the screen as distraction-free as possible. AdvOSM maps include a partial workaround to reveal important points on automotive units: surface warnings, cattleguards, and viewpoints are discoverable as Up Ahead Places using the Custom Search categories "AdvOSM", "Cattleguard", and "Viewpoint," as per the left screenshot below:
The distance and direction (left, right, or ahead) to the next surface warning, cattleguard, and viewpoint are shown, as per the center screenshot above. To see the location, tap the green icon to open a mini-map, as per the right screenshot.
About language: OSM maps are limited to one script (all scripts include digits and the English alphabet) because Garmin (in 2016) blocked new GPSs from opening non-Garmin maps made with Unicode. Therefore AdvOSM maps are published in Latin1 script and not in Unicode. Western European languages are shown exactly. Eastern European, Baltic, and Asian languages written in Latin with special diacritics, such as Slovak, Latvian, Turkish, and Vietnamese, are shown without special diacritics. Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Hangul, Hiragana, and Katakana characters are transliterated into English. No other characters, like Arabic or Chinese, are shown. Some AdvOSM maps are also published in Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese scripts. Handheld Garmin models (like the Montana) purchased outside Asia can't display characters such as Chinese and Korean, not even from Unicode in Garmin's own maps. Some automotive models after 2022 (like the Zumo XT) can display all scripts (provided they aren't in Unicode, even the Unicode in Garmin's own maps).
About search: Search works on transliterated characters after transliteration, as they appear on the screen. For example, Σχολείο Βριλησσίων is transliterated into Scholeio Brilession and is searchable under that name.
OSM features are possible thanks to the volunteers who tagged the roads in OSM. You can help by becoming a volunteer and uploading your corrections and surface descriptions to OSM, too.
Language Footnotes
Чтобы скачать русскую версию карты России "Russia", нажмите на зеленую кнопку "Download" в середине страницы и прокрутите список карт вниз, пока не увидите четыре версии, начинающиеся с "Russia_Russian". Выберите одну из четырех версий: "_HD" означает только для автомобильных моделей с экранами высокой четкости. Для всех остальных моделей и для Basecamp НЕ используйте версию "_HD". "_noContour" означает без контурных линий. "_withContour" означает с контурными линиями. Затем, чтобы загрузить легенду карты (с указанием значения каждого типа линий и значков), прокрутите список карт вниз и найдите файл, начинающийся с "_Map Legend" на вашем языке.
لتنزيل خريطة "Africa A" (خريطة شمال أفريقيا) باللغة العربية، انقر على زر "Download" الأخضر في منتصف الصفحة، ثم مرر لأسفل في قائمة الخرائط حتى تجد أربعة إصدارات تبدأ بـ "Africa_A_Arabic". اختر أحد الإصدارات الأربعة: "_HD" مخصص فقط لطرازات السيارات ذات الشاشات عالية الدقة. لا تستخدم إصدار "_HD" مع جميع الطرازات الأخرى أو مع برنامج Basecamp. "_noContour" يعني بدون خطوط كونتور. "_withContour" يعني مع خطوط كونتور. ثم، لتنزيل مفتاح الخريطة (الذي يوضح معنى كل نوع من أنواع الخطوط والرموز)، قم بالتمرير لأسفل قائمة الخرائط إلى الأسفل وابحث عن الملف الذي يبدأ بـ "_Map Legend" بلغتك.
لتنزيل خريطة "Middle East" (الشرق الأوسط) باللغة العربية، انقر على زر "Download" الأخضر في منتصف الصفحة، ثم مرر لأسفل في قائمة الخرائط حتى تجد أربعة إصدارات تبدأ بـ "Middle_East__Arabic". اختر أحد الإصدارات الأربعة: "_HD" مخصص فقط لطرازات السيارات ذات الشاشات عالية الدقة. لا تستخدم إصدار "_HD" مع جميع الطرازات الأخرى أو مع برنامج Basecamp. "_noContour" يعني بدون خطوط كونتور. "_withContour" يعني مع خطوط كونتور. ثم، لتنزيل مفتاح الخريطة (الذي يوضح معنى كل نوع من أنواع الخطوط والرموز)، قم بالتمرير لأسفل قائمة الخرائط إلى الأسفل وابحث عن الملف الذي يبدأ بـ "_Map Legend" بلغتك.
要下载中文版“Silk Road Asia”地图（丝绸之路包含中国），请点击页面中间的绿色“Download”按钮，向下滚动地图列表，直到看到以“Silk_Road_Asia_Chinese-Simpl”开头的四个地图版本。选择其中一个版本：“_HD”仅适用于配备高清屏幕的汽车车型。其他车型和Basecamp用户请勿使用“_HD”版本。“_noContour”表示无等高线。“_withContour”表示有等高线。然后，要下载地图图例（显示每种线条和图标的含义），向下滚动地图列表到底部，找到以您的语言“_Map Legend”开头的文件。
要下載中文版「Northeast Asia」地圖（東北亞地圖包含台灣），請點擊頁面中間的綠色「Download」按鈕，向下捲動地圖列表，直到看到四個以「Northeast_Asia_Chinese-Trad」開頭的地圖版本。選擇其中一個版本：「_HD」僅適用於配備高清螢幕的汽車車型。其他車型和Basecamp用戶請勿使用「_HD」版本。 “_noContour”表示無等高線。 “_withContour”表示有等高線。然後，要下載地圖圖例（顯示每種線條和圖示的含義），向下捲動地圖清單到底部，找到以您的語言「_Map Legend」開頭的檔案。
한국어 버전의 "Northeast Asia" 지도(한국이 포함된 동북아시아 지도)를 다운로드하려면 페이지 중앙에 있는 녹색 "Download" 버튼을 클릭하고 지도 목록을 아래로 스크롤하여 "Northeast_Asia_Korean"으로 시작하는 네 가지 버전의 지도를 찾으세요. 네 가지 버전 중 하나를 선택하세요. "_HD"는 고화질 화면이 있는 차량용 모델에서만 사용 가능합니다. 다른 모든 모델 및 Basecamp에서는 "_HD" 버전을 사용하지 마세요. "_noContour"는 등고선이 없는 버전이고, "_withContour"는 등고선이 있는 버전입니다. 다음으로, 지도 범례(각 선과 아이콘의 의미를 보여주는 파일)를 다운로드하려면 지도 목록을 아래로 스크롤하여 해당 언어로 "_Map Legend"로 시작하는 파일을 찾으세요.
日本語版の「Northeast Asia」地図（北東アジア地図には日本が含まれます）をダウンロードするには、ページ中央の緑色の「Download」ボタンをクリックし、地図の一覧をスクロールして、「Northeast_Asia_Japanese」で始まる4つの地図バージョンが表示されるまで進みます。4つのバージョンから1つを選択してください。「_HD」は高解像度スクリーン搭載の自動車モデル専用です。その他のモデルやBasecampでは、「_HD」バージョンを使用しないでください。「_noContour」は等高線なし、「_withContour」は等高線ありを意味します。次に、地図の凡例（各線やアイコンの意味を示すもの）をダウンロードするには、地図の一覧を一番下までスクロールし、お使いの言語で「_Map Legend」で始まるファイルを探してください。