DOES ANYONE KNOW IF GARMIN GPS MAP SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY OF THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES? IF SO WHERE CAN IT BE PURCHASED? THANKS IN ADVANCE TOM

The only thing that I am aware and KNOW works is the Garmin Maps Street Maps for Southern Africa.

I've got them on a Garmin Oregon 450 and 550T and use it in Namibia. The maps are a bit dated - 8 to 10 years old and don't show didn't show the new development in Klein Windhoek between down town and the A/P.

But we used them to drive to, in and around Swakop and Walvis Bay. Had no problem finding our B&B's, restaurants and gas stations. Most important...Joe's Beerhouse was already loaded!!!

There is another company called something like "Tracks 4 Africa" that say their maps are Garmin compatible, but no first hand personal knowledge.

I've used the Garmin Southern Africa GPS maps as well. I forget exactly which countries are included but I know RSA, Namibia and Botswana are. My edition definately did not include Zim. The maps are pretty good. Some areas/roads of Namibia are not mapped but we encountered only a couple that were not. It even had the game drive trails in Chobe National Park in Bots.

I ordered mine directly from Garmin I believe. If memory serves, it was somewhere around $100 to $120.

My Southern Africa Streetmaps 2010 has Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and everything south.

I purchased a Garmin GPS download for southern Africa from Farraday's in Harare (they downloaded the map on to my GPS unit) so I know that they exist. Where to get one in the States, that is another issue.

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Originally posted by dr.475:
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF GARMIN GPS MAP SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY OF THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES? IF SO WHERE CAN IT BE PURCHASED? THANKS IN ADVANCE TOM

Tracks4Africa. They have some nice offroad stuff. Blew me away when I was in the middle of no where in Botswana and it had some of the pans we hunted on the map. Had all the dirt roads is matetsi. Pretty handy and will load into a garmin.
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