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Old 12-15-2015, 12:29 PM
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In two weeks, I will receive my 2015 brand new Grand Cherokee Limited. Included in this package is a GPS. I am a vivid Garmin user (have 4 or 5 Garmins for my bikes and car here) and a Tomtom.
My question... I doubt that my Jeeps GPS has an African map. My Garmins don't have but I use open source street maps for any part of the world I'm working and so far, that works.
I'm curious what format Jeep uses for their mapping. Because I have various versions with street level for West Africa.
Anybody out there ever tried that.
Looking forward to your reply

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The jeep is sold in Africa. You may be suprised they may have one.
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South Africa has Garmin maps. Next is Saudi Arabia. In between... Desert
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South Africa has Garmin maps. Next is Saudi Arabia. In between... Desert
That makes sense.
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Well, monday the purchase order goes out so next week I should have my Jeep.
Done some digging and found the following....
https://static.garmincdn.com/autoOem...tions%20V3.pdf

Then, if you go to http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl you'll basically find any map of our small little world for free.
I use these maps for years already and even on my own Garmin zumo660, I use them in Nigeria (unto street level).
So, it should be no problem to install any map on the UConnect... At least I know what format UConnect uses. Next week I should be able to tell how to install any map you want on your car system. Exciting about this
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Well, apparently I was a little too quick.
My car is not fitted with a GPS (accept my own Garmin).
But what I understood, it should be no problem adding Openstreet maps to any GPS because it are Garmin format.

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Originally Posted by KTM Adventure
Well, apparently I was a little too quick.
My car is not fitted with a GPS (accept my own Garmin).
But what I understood, it should be no problem adding Openstreet maps to any GPS because it are Garmin format.

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Hi bro i need to use osm for my 8' uconnect because garmin doesn't have maps of my country but i didn't find a way to use openstreetmaps , do you know the way to do it ?
thank you
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Hey, what country/region you need maps for?

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