{"id":458,"date":"2020-06-08T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:17:30","slug":"using-a-garmin-gps-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/using-a-garmin-gps-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Garmin GPS in Japan.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So compared to my near-annual rant about updating my Zumo 660 with the latest European maps, this was ridiculously easy.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out OpenStreetMap fully supports Garmin GPSs these days and it&#8217;s a simple matter of downloading and installing the map(s) that you want.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the\u00a0maps aren&#8217;t commercial quality, there&#8217;s no 3D buildings, but they work and allow routing both within MapSource and on the GPS itself and come with a plethora of waypoints etc.\u00a0 Best of all, being open source, if you find any errors or omissions in the map data you can submit the fixes yourself and they&#8217;ll be available to everyone shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Not just limited to Japan either, grab your free maps from here : http:\/\/garmin.openstreetmap.nl\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free maps for your Garmin GPS covering the whole world : http:\/\/garmin.openstreetmap.nl\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,22],"tags":[40,39,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}