The New Zealand Open GPS Maps Project for Garmin Mapping GPS

New Zealand Open GPS Maps Project
for Garmin Mapping GPS

QuickStart Guide

Download the installer from here
NB - Nuvi / Zumo and Garmin XT users please download the installer from here
Run the Installer - the maps will be installed onto your PC and integrated into MapSource automatically - ready to download onto your Garmin GPS
More detail...

About The New Zealand Open GPS Maps Project

Synopsis: Free autorouting, street number searchable maps of New Zealand for Garmin mapping GPS. The street maps cover the whole of New Zealand with just about every road and street named in the country (except the Chatham Islands). These maps are free - do not pay for them - there are scumbag Ebay traders who sell them - they are ripping off our community by making money off our hard work.

Project: The New Zealand Open GPS Maps project is a collaborative community-driven project based around a forum. Users report issues or bugs and regional mappers pick up the reports and make changes to the source maps. Usually within 24 - 48 hours a revised version of the map is available for download. The maps are compiled specifically for the Garmin GPS platform as it is one of the only GPS map formats that have 3rd party mapping tools available. We use Stan's fantastic cgpsmapper complier - both on line and off line.

History: The project initially started as a sideline project in 2004, and produced several mapsets. These are still available as the 'Legacy' maps. They are no longer maintained, but are useful for older GPS units with limited mapping memory. August 2006 saw the project take a new turn - with encouragement and help from several people we were able to get the maps autorouting. By December 2006 the maps were ready to release to the community. See the history thread on the forums for more detail. 17 October 2007 the project wins the New Zealand Open Source Awards - Software Project. An awesome result for the team!

Team: Behind the project exists a great team of dedicated regional mappers, keen users, and people interested in GPS mapping.

Map Data: The project is based around purchased LINZ | CORAX data, and added to by the regional mappers. New or changed roads are added via extracts from LINZ and / or GPS track logs. The maps have a rich set of POI that is fed from the Zenbu project - another open source project. ESRI shape files can be extracted from the maps for use in other mapping applications. See the forum topic on extracting data for more details.

Open Source: The source files are available from Mapcentre2

Downloads: see the forum for more information or scroll further down the page.

Hardware: Known to work with the following Garmin GPS models - note that to be useful you will need 36+mb of memory on your GPS.

Aviation Mapping	96, 96c, 296c (via datacard)
Etrex Mapping	Legend¹, Legend C¹, Legend Cx, Legend HCx Vista¹, Vista C¹, Vista Cx, Vista HCx
60 Series Mapping	GPSMap 60¹, 60C, 60CS, 60Cx, 60CSx
70 Series Mapping	GPSMap 76, 76S, 76C, 76CS, 76Cx, 76CSx
PDA	iQue 3200, iQue 3600, iQue M5, Garmin Que software
Mobile Mapping	Quest, Quest 2, EMap¹, III+¹, V¹ StreetPilot 2650 Nuvi², Zumo²
Chart Plotter	172C (via datacard), 276C
	¹ These GPS models have limited memory - you will not be able to fit the full mapset or all the features. A portion of the mapset may be loaded however. ²These GPS units should use the alternate download installer to enable global indexing.

Support: Contact us via the forums. We are always keen to hear your feedback and any bug reports. It's also great to hear from users who use the maps.

Please join us on the forums

Sample screen shots:

Nuvi 310

Quest

Polygon features	POI features

Motorway exits	Arterial roads for efficient routing

60CS and CSx

Garmin Que

NZ Open GPS Autorouting /street searchable

Download from here
NB Nuvi, Zumo, Garmin XT users should download the installer from here
Execute the Installer - the maps will be installed onto your PC and integrated into MapSource automatically
Ideally suited to Garmin Mapping GPS units with 24 mb of memory or more - the full mapset is approx 36mb
Includes thousands of POI from www.zenbu.co.nz
Also please note the maps are under the UMP License, which has the terms embedded in the installer and also on the MapCenter2 website

Legacy NZ Open GPS Maps

Older version of the maps
Not street searchable, no autorouting, cities and POI are searchable
Ideally suited to Garmin GPS units with 8 mb of memory or more
Download from http://www.gwprojects.org/NZOpenGPSMapsDownloadpage.html
Please follow the instructions and refer to the tutorials for using with MapSource or without MapSource

Legacy NZ Open GPS Maps for TrackMaker

Older version of the maps - based on the Legacy maps
For use with PCs and laptops using TrackMaker
More details here

Legal Notes

The NZ Open GPS maps are distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The NZ Open GPS maps are free software. Any distribution of it must be for free and at cost of media, packaging and shipping only. No 'finders' or 'research' fee may be charged for this maps distribution.
The content of this website (i.e. the pages and images) may not be copied / reproduced.
If you use these maps in any way (including any TradeMe GPS sellers who pre-load onto GPS units or provide the maps on CD along with the purchase of a GPS unit), please give "NZ Open GPS Maps Project" credit, and I'd also appreciate some feedback and which model of GPS you have so I can build up a list of hardware these maps work with
Now would be a good time to point out a few things: the data may not be 100% accurate. Don't blame us if you get lost! The normal navigation resources should be always used e.g. maps / charts / compass / local advise etc.
The geographic points of interest data is known to be slightly inaccurate as it was developed from points manually read from paper maps by LINZ...it is good enough for regional locations, just don't expect accuracy down to a couple of meters

LINZ / Corax Data License:

In circumstances where this data or derivatives of this data have been used to generate information dissemination products such as maps, digital database products, internet databases, gazetteer books or similar, a clear and prominent reference should be made to Land Information New Zealand as the source of the data. If the data has been downloaded and translated or imported into another format or computer program Land Information New Zealand will not be responsible for any problems arising from the use of the data. The spelling or composition of the place names must not be altered unless the change is made to keep the name in line with a New Zealand Geographic Board decision or to correct a known error as detailed by Land Information New Zealand. This data may be freely distributed provided that these conditions are distributed with the data and adhered to by all recipients.

Disclaimers
1. Copying, modification, on-supply and any other use of maps or data extracted from NZTopoOnline is undertaken at the users own risk.
2. Under no circumstances will LINZ be liable to users or to any other person for any loss or damage whatsoever caused directly or indirectly by any copying, modification, creation of derivative works, on-supply or other use of maps or data extracted from NZTopoOnline, or by any other error, omission or other inaccuracy in any such maps or data.

Copyright

All topographic data featured in NZTopoOnline is subject to Crown copyright protection or is licenced to the Crown (DEM data used for hill shading is supplied under licence by GeographX Ltd). You may use, copy and distribute the information extracted from NZTopoOnline in any format or media without charge. However where the data is distributed to a third party, the source, date of extract and copyright of the Crown must be acknowledged eg (NZTopoOnline, extracted July 2002, Crown Copyright Reserved).

Most road data for this project has been sourced and purchased from Ollivier & Co. with lessor amounts from the LINZ topo-online website extracted between 2003 onwards, and the old Beca / Transit highways centerline dataset. There are also many user submitted tracklogs and feedback that has been used to further develop the maps. See the 'Maps' forums for more information.

Other Data Sources:

POI for the commercial elements (i.e. business locations) have been sourced from the www.Zenbu.co.nz project with the help of both members here (RC, Cloggy) and Zenbu's team.
POI for the non-commercial elements (i.e. parks, huts, hot-springs etc) is derived from multiple sources including LINZ, Geoff's modified dataset, lots of feedback and help from individuals (Sean, Peter, Aaron, TGSnoopy and many, many others - sorry if I have forgotten your names here! But there have been many over the years)

The website content is maintained using NVU (Free Open Source web authoring system - nearly as good as DreamWeaver for basic use!)
The site is maintained using FileZilla (Free Open Source FTP program - as good as - and in my humble opinion better than - WSFTP / FTP Commander / Cute FTP etc)