Awesome Maps

Widget

Awesome Maps

By CrispGarmin · vv2.5.0

Rating

4.3

Reviews

11

Downloads

1,000

Price

Free

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Description

Streaming high quality maps to your Garmin, including premium country maps including USGS, Ordnance Survey, IGN, LINZ and Kartverket. Awesome! Awesome Maps is an app/widget for your device that delivers high quality cartographic maps for biking/hiking (Open Hiking Map), satellite imagery (for devi

What's New

v2.5.0 - 5 May 2026 Add: Kartverket Norge (Norway) maps v2.4.1 - 3 May 2026 Update: Exception handling (ERA) v2.4.0 - 28 April 2026 Add: Snail-trail route trace - 20 locations in licensed version (just 3 in Trial mode), with settings on/off Add: Contact page link Add: Map type display for UI button Update: Memory optimisation Fix: Text typo v2.3.0 - 24 April 2026 Add: LINZ (New Zealand) maps Add: 'License Check' menu Update: Remove extraneous logging Update: Optimise loading priority in order of map coverage of screen Fix: Tapping map type not changing maps v2.2.0 - 21 April 2026 Add: Pan/Drag capabilty to move the map for exploring (touchscreen only) Add: Phone connection and bad/old GPS location warnings Add: Discovery hints for premium map types Update: Improve refresh frequency Update: Remove extraneous logging Update: Icons and layout Fix: Blank tiles not restoring/reloading v2.1.0 - 17 April 2026 Add: Device support for Descent, D2 Air X10, Edge Explore 2, MARQ and Venu 2 series Fix: North Arrow display (and associated map elements) v2.0.0 - 14 April 2026 Add: Zoom In / Out controls for touchscreen devices Add: Heading icon and map type control (for touchscreen devices) to the map Add: Optimise tile loading for rectangular (Edge) devices Add: Scalebar adaption for non-metric device distance units Add: Device support for D2 Mach 2 Pro Add: Updated icons Fix: Scale for Ordnance Survey maps Remove: Non-tiled maps (increased tiled map allowance to compensate) v1.9.0 - 6 April 2026 ** Note: usage data has been reset to 0 for this release - enjoy more Awesome Maps! Add: IGN (for Spain / España) to tiled maps ** Note: Static maps will be removed in the next release Fix: map type, zoom level and heading/north preferences not being persisted Update: Improve and optimise logging and license handling v1.8.0 - 6 April 2026 Add: IGN (France) to tiled maps ** Note: Static maps will be removed in a future release Update: refactor for shared code/license with datafield in development v1.7.0 - 28 March 2026 Add: USGS (for USA) and worldwide satellite imagery to tiled maps ** Note: Tiled maps out of preview (static maps will be removed in a future release soon) Fix: version number Fix: scalebar on tiled maps v1.6.0 - 25 March 2026 Add: Zoom In/Out (menus) on tiled maps for control over alternate scales and resolutions (+ allows acccess to Ordnance Survey OS 1:25,000 as well as 1:50,000 mapping) Fix: readability of message tile text Fix: missing devices in logs Update: optimised variable use v1.5.0 - 25 March 2026 Add: additonal menu availability Fix: readability of message tile text Fix: potential use of old location Fix: map tiles upcoming when oriented to heading v1.4.2 - 23 March 2026 Fix: glance permissions on launch v1.4.1 - 23 March 2026 Add: pop-up unlicensed usage warning at 70% limit v1.4.0 - 23 March 2026 Add: scale-bar (tiled maps view) Add: settings and menu to control map orientation, including for non-touch devices (tiled maps view) v1.3.0 - 21 March 2026 (Fairbairn Edition) Add: North arrow, with tap to orientate (tiled maps view) v1.2.0 - 19 March 2026 Fix: messages and static map update/refresh Update: Optimise timers and redraw updates Update: Reduced duplicate exception message reporting v1.1.0 - 18 March 2026 Add: Clear Tiled Map Cache options in settings and homepage menu v1.0.0 - 17 March 2026 First release

Review

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Compatible Devices (82)

Instinct® 3 – 45 mm, AMOLEDInstinct® Crossover AMOLEDInstinct® 3 – 50 mm, AMOLEDDescent™ MK3i - 51mmDescent™ MK3 - 43mmDescent™ G2Venu® 2Venu® 2SVenu® 2 PlusVenu® 2Venu® 2 PlusVenu® 2SVenu® 3Venu® 3SVenu® 4 – 41 mmVenu® 4 – 45 mmVenu® X1Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2SMercedes-Benz Venu® 2+62 more

Permissions

CommunicationsPositioningPersistedContent

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