Awesome Maps

Awesome Maps streams high quality to your Garmin.

Awesome Maps is a datafield for your activities that delivers high quality Open Hiking Map (OHM) cartographic maps for biking/hiking, satellite imagery (for devices with more than 64-colour displays) and Premium country mapping from Ordnance Survey (GB), USGS (Continental USA), IGN France & España (Spain), Kartverket Norge (Norway), BGDI swisstopo (Switzerland) and NGI.be (Belgium). ** No additional companion app is required on your phone. **

App (home screen widget/glance version) available from here (includes example screen shots and map images).

Data field (for within activities version) available from here (includes example screen shots and map images).

If any questions are not answered here, try direct via the contact page.

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

I don't want to pay, but still appreciate the service - what can I do?
Leave a review - that's the (second) best way to show appreciation and provide support for the whole system. Thank you. Opening the app page from Garmin on your phone / ConnectIQ app will allow you to review.

Why is my paid license still showing as "Trial"?
After you visit the license page, Awesome Maps sets a reminder to check for a new licence when you start-up for the next 10-days. If you have paid for a subscription, a 3-day cooling off period gives you full funcionality and the option to cancel.

Solution #1 - restart the application or your device to check again (you probably already tried that!).
Solution #2 - from the Awesome Maps menu on your device, select 'Check License'. The on-device menus are in different places depending on if you have a touch-screen or 5-buttons etc. See your device instructions for accessing the settings menus for CIQ apps (all app settings from any developer can be accessed in the same standard way defined by Garmin per device).
Solution #3 - confirm the license is registered OK by going into the 'License...' menu and opening the license page again on your phone. This will confirm your license validity and dates - and also reset the reminder your device to check again on next start-up.

Where can I find license pricing information?
The 'License...' menu within the Awesome Maps app opens a page with direct links to the options avalable specifically for your device.
For an overview of the different options (seasonal or annual, with/without premium country maps) see the GarminApps Store.
Do NOT purchase direct from the store as this will not have the license association with your device - always and only use the 'License...' menu from within the app.

Why have I got black/blank areas on the maps?
Probably because some network connection interferred with the map download and Awesome Maps thinks it has a map segment but actually doesn't.
There is code to handle this, but maybe not for every case.
If you still have an issue with odd blank tiles, from the settings menu scroll down to "Clear Map Cache" - then contact us if that still didn't help.

Why are all maps not free?
Because certain providers require registration and (cost) licensing for their data, such as the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain.
And because there are other network and server management costs to keep everything running.
And because it takes some (a lot) of time to research and fix issues and add features.

How do I cancel my subscription?
The payment confirmation link from Dodo includes a no-password method to manage your payment. Follow the link and within your Dodo record there is the option to change or cancel your subscription.

Can you add specific country maps for where I live?
Possibly... where do you live?
Not all countries publish accessible map information, but more do each year. Get in touch, especially if you know data is available, either publically or under a developer license.

Change Log

This is a historical record as the Garmin page is limited in length.
See the Garmin page for most recent updates not yet sync'd here.

v2.8.0 - 20 June 2026
Add: NGI (Belgium) TopoMaps
Add: Grid Reference (currently Ordnance Survey for GB) to initial glance view
Add: 'Safe Mode' setting for troubleshooting drawing and additional logging
Fix: Tap North arrow to change map orientation / heading (and fallback where North arrow does not rotate)
Update: Better map handling per-device rotation failure using fallback with known devices (e.g. Forerunner165)
Update: License page prompt (when limit reached) without requirement to find menu item
Update: Optimise Premium map types identification and management
Update: Refined text layout, sizing/spacing and content & North-arrow location on map
Update: Monthly data reset logic and review option, extend review menu devices

v2.7.2 - 13 June 2026
Fix: handle per-device rotation failure using fallback to draw maps (e.g. Instinct 3)
Update: Memory optimisation

v2.7.1 - 11 June 2026
Add: Device support for Approach series
Fix: Initial usage period counters
Fix: Missing swisstopo attribution on map
Update: Text layout improvements

v2.7.0 - 9 June 2026
Add: BGDI swisstopo (Switzerland) maps
Add: 'Goto Maps' menu on homepage for Venu4-45mm (Oliver edition)
Update: Improved use of mobile data connections & messages
Update: SDK 9.2.0

v2.6.1 - 23 May 2026
Fix: Storage reset handling (ERA Exception)

v2.6.0 - 13 May 2026
Add: Device support for Forerunner 70, Forerunner 170 and Forerunner 170 Music

v2.5.0 - 5 May 2026
Add: Kartverket Norge (Norway) maps

v2.4.1 - 3 May 2026
Update: Exception handling (ERA)

v2.4.0 - 28 April 2026
Add: Snail-trail route trace - 20 locations in licensed version (just 3 in Trial mode), with settings on/off
Add: Contact page link
Add: Map type display for UI button
Update: Memory optimisation
Fix: Text typo

v2.3.0 - 24 April 2026
Add: LINZ (New Zealand) maps
Add: 'License Check' menu
Update: Remove extraneous logging
Update: Optimise loading priority in order of map coverage of screen
Fix: Tapping map type not changing maps

v2.2.0 - 21 April 2026
Add: Pan/Drag capabilty to move the map for exploring (touchscreen only)
Add: Phone connection and bad/old GPS location warnings
Add: Discovery hints for premium map types
Update: Improve refresh frequency
Update: Remove extraneous logging
Update: Icons and layout
Fix: Blank tiles not restoring/reloading

v2.1.0 - 17 April 2026
Add: Device support for Descent, D2 Air X10, Edge Explore 2, MARQ and Venu 2 series
Fix: North Arrow display (and associated map elements)

v2.0.0 - 14 April 2026
Add: Zoom In / Out controls for touchscreen devices
Add: Heading icon and map type control (for touchscreen devices) to the map
Add: Optimise tile loading for rectangular (Edge) devices
Add: Scalebar adaption for non-metric device distance units
Add: Device support for D2 Mach 2 Pro
Add: Updated icons
Fix: Scale for Ordnance Survey maps
Remove: Non-tiled maps (increased tiled map allowance to compensate)

v1.9.0 - 6 April 2026
Add: IGN (for Spain / España) to tiled maps
Fix: map type, zoom level and heading/north preferences not being persisted
Update: Improve and optimise logging and license handling

v1.8.0 - 6 April 2026
Add: IGN (France) to tiled maps
Update: refactor for shared code/license with datafield in development

v1.7.1 - 29 March 2026
Add: device support for Forerunner (255-Music, 955) and Venu3, Instinct (3, Crossover)

v1.7.0 - 28 March 2026
Add: USGS (for USA) and worldwide satellite imagery to tiled maps

Fix: version number
Fix: scalebar on tiled maps

Update: Tiled maps out of preview (static maps will be removed in a future release)
v1.6.0 - 25 March 2026
Add: Zoom In/Out (menus) on tiled maps for control over alternate scales and resolutions (+ allows acccess to Ordnance Survey OS 1:25,000 as well as 1:50,000 mapping)
Fix: readability of message tile text
Fix: missing devices in logs
Update: optimised variable use

v1.5.0 - 25 March 2026
Add: additonal menu availability
Fix: readability of message tile text
Fix: potential use of old location
Fix: map tiles upcoming when oriented to heading

v1.4.2 - 23 March 2026
Fix: glance permissions on launch

v1.4.1 - 23 March 2026
Add: pop-up unlicensed usage warning at 70% limit

v1.4.0 - 23 March 2026
Add: scale-bar (tiled maps view)
Add: settings and menu to control map orientation, including for non-touch devices (tiled maps view)

v1.3.0 - 21 March 2026 (Fairbairn Edition)
Add: North arrow, with tap to orientate (tiled maps view)

v1.2.0 - 19 March 2026
Fix: messages and static map update
Update: Optimise timers and redraw updates
Update: educe duplicate exception message reporting

v1.1.0 - 18 March 2026
Add: Clear Tiled Map Cache options in settings and homepage menu

v1.0.0 - 17 March 2026
First release