When the Nuvi is connected to the PC, you get the map in BaseCamp. HACK #1 – Running a USB Drive as the Nuvi There are no guarantees, expressed or implied. You might get hit by a minivan crossing the street while staring at your GPS. I’m going to save you the long, sad story on the intermediate steps and get right to it.ĭisclaimer: You might break something. So, now I have a Colorado Topo Map on my PC. I’m running 64B Win7 and had to install a starter map first. I picked up a topography map of the state of Colorado. The site, GPSFileDepot, has lots of excellent user-made maps. While I was poking around, I found that there is a new and improved PC-based mapping program from Garmin, BaseMap (free). To start, I planned to reinstall my old Garmin PC software, MapSource, which needed the original with serial to install. I keep on getting notices that my maps are old and that I should update them since the one on the system is from around time of Columbus and there have been significant changes. I haven’t played with my GPS in a couple of years.
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