[Closed] Custom maps on my Garmin GPS

Hey folks,

Last night I discovered that I can take a photo (I don't have a scanner), of an OS explorer map, overlay it on Google World then save it to my Garmin Oregon as a custom map. This works perfectly, to the point that my tracklog from Saturday's ride up Dumyat in Stirlingshire matches the custom map's summit!. I'm [i]quite[/i] chuffed with this, but not totally as the resolution of the map is a bit blurry / naff.

Next, I tried capturing a screen shot from Multimap of the same area, overlaid it again and hey presto, it was a bit better. The resolution's still nowhere near as good as the OS maps that came with the unit on microSD card (OS Discoverer GB National Parks), though.

So I was wondering if you lot had any ideas? Is it simply a case of finding the optimal zoom? Or breaking each area up into lots of little cells?.....which might work, although could be time consuming...hmmmm 8)

Has anyone else had a go at this with good results? The accuracy seems great, I just want to optimise the clarity of the maps.

Cheers for any advice,

B. 🙂