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Garmin Topo Maps
Unfortunately it’s different everywhere.France: IGN maps are considered gold standard. You can see everything for free onOn mobile now but if you google “print ign carte” there’s a website that lets you print for free. Unfortunately it was buggy when I tried last time. But others have had success with it.Gaia GPS has the french ign series. Their printing is pretty bad imo, but supposedly being improved this year. It also has Spanish maps, which are at times questionable in quality.Avenza has a nice 25k splice of the french/Spanish maps for the Pyrenees. Unfortunately not printable.There is a good 50k series of the Pyrenees, from IGN, which covers France and Spain.
Only available physically as far and I can tell though. Probably the most useful for on trail in the Pyrenees.The best Spanish maps I’ve found are the alpine quest series. Much higher quality than other ones so ive found. I only recently discovered the series so not sure about digital availability.If you use a Garmin gps, topo pirineos is supposedly the best source.
This site is the ultimate source for GPS files including user contributed and created maps, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools to help you with your projects. Currently we have 697 maps (many of which are free) with over 3.02 million downloads, a few tools, many tutorials, and image hosting.
Totally independent and free open source project. But only useful to Garmin users.If you go east to the balkans (Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania) there are beautiful and less populated mountains with a more unique cultural element. No online sources that I could find.
Garmin Norway Topo Projects Free
The physical maps are of questionable quality in places, and in other places (Kosovo) simply don’t exist. I don’t use android so I’m not sure which apps are compatible. I couldn’t find any for iOS.And yes, you can use Basecamp. I find the interface clunky and frustrating and the printing options are next to useless (but you can if you really want).Its a shame that it’s not available for other systems. I went down the rabbit hole of “surely that raw information can be converted into a gpx or kml or something that another client can use” but reached a lot of dead ends. Someone who understands the technicalities of digital mapping might have better luck than me.