#GARMIN CUSTOM MAPS FOLDER HOW TO#
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You should have a few themes you can try.The portable GPS devices are very helpful during field work given their increasingly capabilities and new functions. Sets which installed maps the device uses. When disabled, you must zoom in or out manually. Sets the data that appears on the map page (Customizing the Map Layers).Īutomatically selects the zoom level for optimal use of your map. More detail may cause the map to draw slower. Sets the vehicle icon that represents your position on the map.

#GARMIN CUSTOM MAPS FOLDER MANUAL#

What Brightness Setting are you using when there's bleeding? You can also try different Themes.Ĭheck the Map & Vehicle Settings portion of your owners manual or by going to your device's Settings: I have backlight bleeding issue with garmin drive smart 55 it appears when i choose night colour mode is there anyway to add different colour mode

Red would also be the same color as the high traffic indicator along roads (as would yellow). I believe purple is the default because it doesn't conflict with any other map elements and really stands out. I agree that nothing else seems to work on the route arrow. The traffic indicators on the roads are also something that is hard-coded and cannot be edited. I'm not sure the track log routes are in the theme file at all, they may be hard-coded. What's a good vehicle icon? The blue arrow is not bright enough. Looks washed out, not bright enough on this display, blends in with some of the other map elements. Trying different shades of red, none look good. Can't post xml code in here, so see the link below.Īs for the red route, i believe that's MAP_RTE_ACTV_LEG_CLR. I reverted it back to the garmin color/thickness. Got to actually road test the gps today with the new theme. Caution: I'm only reporting what I've read.

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One thing of interest in the last link is that it shows how automobile's built-in GPS devices, if made by Garmin and if the vehicle can update maps via USB, then it's possible to add custom themes to the built-in GPS. There's a theme editor available which should avoid the need to speak 'HTML' to edit a theme: Once installed, themes can be selected thusly: While looking for when themes came to be, I did come across a few FAQs that may be of interest. I can confirm that the nuvi 2460 has themes but the nuvi 855 and 750 do not and the release dates do suggest that 2012 or a little earlier may have been when themes came to Garmin devices. That indicate that themes existed at least back to models made in 2012. I did find messages and FAQs here like this one: I haven't found a list in a quick internet search. I tried to find a list of devices with themes and apparently, there was a Garmin FAQ at one point listing them but it's now defunct. You don't mention what Garmin model you have. For a custom theme like Narvick's, you will need to copy the custom theme into that folder. Themes and you will find multiple Garmin-made themes there. Yes, if you view the files and folders on your Garmin GPS, the devices that do themes have a folder called, wait for it.

#GARMIN CUSTOM MAPS FOLDER INSTALL#

Stupid question, how does one install custom themes? Is there a specific theme directory on the device?

Garmin Themes and POI-Factory member Narvick's custom themes.

Added updated links to replace the dead links.

It will show up as 'Custom' when you browse with the Garmin. kmtf file into your Garmin's Themes -> Map folder.

#GARMIN CUSTOM MAPS FOLDER HOW TO#

I don't know how to upload these files, so I used a simple file hosting service. To download the new theme tested on the DriveSmart series the link is To download the theme tested on the nuvi 37xx/3597 the link is The base color theme of the custom theme is Italia. If anyone else is interested, I am sharing it here. I bought my wife a new DriveSmart 65 for Christmas and loaded the theme I've been using forever onto it, and it did *not* translate well. Colors have been changed and sharpened with the background, streets and borders are bigger, etc. The theme I created emphasizes better visibility. It's been a long time since I've posted.Ī long time ago I posted my custom Garmin theme that I created because I felt that none of the themes included with the device were very good.

Garmin custom maps folder