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Copy the entire contents of the Ibycus Topo 4.0 disk image to folder on your hard drive - you are going to move some files around and the disk image is read-only.

Double clicking the ISO file will mount a new disk on your computer.

Ibycus Topo 4.0 is downloaded as an ISO file (this is a DVD disk image).

Launch JaVaWa MapConverter (on OS X 10.8 and later, right-click on the JaVaW MapConverter application icon the first time and choose the “Open” menu item - this will ask if you want to bypass OS X’s developer signing restrictions - click the “Open” button).

Basecamp 3 for mac install#

Download and install JaVaWa MapConverter.I will assume you have your Windows map files already. (Caveat: since JaVaWa is a free tool and not supported by Garmin, it is not guaranteed to work, and I have no idea how it works with locked maps). gmap format, and I thought I would use that as an example of converting Garmin Windows maps for use on a Mac.

Today, I was able to convert Ibycus 4.0 to Mac. I was able to find a copy of version Ibycus 3.2 for Mac, but I could only ever find the Windows version of Ibycus 4.0. You need to download a copy using BitTorrent. Because this is a very large map, Ibycus does not distribute the files directly. I use the Ibycus Topo Canada map as my main map for off-the-beaten-path adventures.

You will of course need Java installed on your Mac, which it may not be by default. Both have a graphical user interface, but I found JaVaWa MapConverter easier to use. If you only have a Mac computer, there are two free utilities available to that convert Windows Garmin-compatible maps to the Mac BaseCamp-compatible format: JaVaWa MapConverter and Gmapibuilder. Apparently it can convert your maps to the Mac format. Simply download and install Garmin’s MapConverter on your Windows computer. If you have maps on a Windows computer already, and would like to move them to a Mac, then you are in luck. There are two methods for converting Windows Garmin-compatible maps to BaseCamp for Mac: 1) on a Windows XP or later computer, or 2) on a Mac. Even Garmin’s own Mac BaseCamp application does not support Windows’ BaseCamp maps.

Basecamp 3 for mac mac os#

For some legacy reason, the file formats for Garmin-compatible maps differs between Windows and Mac OS X.