Widget
Awesome Maps
By CrispGarmin · vv2.5.0
Rating
4.3
Reviews
11
Downloads
1,000
Price
Free
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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