is there anyway to download free maps onto my garmin etrex legend gps?

Question

i would like to have software on my gps like the kind they have on mapsource, but i'm not really prepared to spend over $110 just to do it. any thoughts?

Answer 1

Actually, you al;lready paid for those maps, we pay every year with Taxes. The Sattelites that run the GPS are Taxpayer Funded DoD or NASA.
http://www.nist.gov/srd/
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/dgps/coverage/Default.htm
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/dwm/data_rescue_daily_weather_maps.html
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/Index.htm
http://www.maptech.com/onlinemaps/
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/otherfax.shtml
Our tax $ paid for tghem and pays to keep them up there and working, we should not be charged for something we allready paid for. 4 times.

Answer 2

Garmin Etrex 10 Maps

Answer 3

Ignore those answers. Of course you can get free maps. Lots of websites give you them free. Here's one of many;

http://gpstracklog.com/2009/09/free-gps-topo-maps.html

Answer 4

You get what you pay for, darlin. It cost someone time and money to put all that stuff together. Don't you expect to be paid for your work?

Have you visited the forums at Groundspeak.com? You can get there thru your Geocaching.com account.

Answer 5

free maps no. You have to buy any maps that you want to put in the unit. You do not have to pay for the use of the GPS signal as the other uninformed answerer has posted.