• Plug your unit into the USB port on your computer. A file will pop up that says “Garmin”. On the next list of files that come up, click on “Garmin”. In the next list of files that come3 up, click on “Garmin Device”. It is a small text file. About 12 lines down in the text file will be a line that says, “UNLOCK.
• Click on the MapInstall icon at the top left of the program (This will provide a drop-down menu) Click on Manage Map Products In the Map Product Manager window, click.

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PGFT load the data of map, with the name, FID, PID, etc, and click on Unlock selected TDB to unlock it. Close all: BaseCamp and PGFT. Open BaseCamp to open the map already unlocked. If we are retailers can see that don’t jump the warning of “locked map” that can confirm executing the command “Map; Manage map products”.

Introducing ExpertGPS

ExpertGPS is GPS map software for your Windows computer, tablet, or laptop. ExpertGPS makes it easy to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks, as well as GPS, GIS, and CAD data, to and from your Garmin Overlander.

ExpertGPS gives you access to every topo map in the USA, as well as high-resolution aerial photos, so you can zoom in on any trail or job site. ExpertGPS even works with your own scanned maps, and data from over 100 different mapping, GIS, and CAD programs.

ExpertGPS Home is an affordable outdoor trip planner at only $33/yr. ExpertGPS Pro contains all of the professional mapping features of high-end CAD and GIS packages, but without the steep learning curve and at a fraction of the price (now only $79/yr).

Thousands of businesses and GPS users depend on ExpertGPS mapping software to upload and download Garmin Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks, make maps of their GPS data over seamless USGS topo maps and aerial photos, and convert and transfer Garmin Overlander data to and from Excel, Google Earth, ArcGIS, and AutoCAD. We've collected dozens of tips and tricks designed to save you time and money when mapping with your Garmin Overlander.

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Garmin Data Upload and Download, Map Making, Adding Waypoints and POIs, Tracklog Tricks, Coordinate Conversion, Google Earth and KML, ArcGIS and Shapefiles, AutoCAD DXF, Creating a Custom Garmin Basemap, Geotagging your Photos, Downloading updates for your Garmin Overlander

Download a fully-featured trial of ExpertGPS, or buy your copy today. We're so confident ExpertGPS will save you time (as a GPS data downloader, coordinate converter, map viewer and editor, and GIS, CAD, and GPS data converter) that we make this guarantee: if ExpertGPS doesn't pay for itself in 14 days, we'll refund your money - and you can keep the software!

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Uploading and Downloading Garmin Overlander Data

Download your Garmin Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks to your computer

ExpertGPS can transfer Garmin Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks through your computer's USB port. It only takes a second or two to download all of the data from your Garmin using ExpertGPS.

Upload new waypoints, routes, and tracks to your Garmin GPS

Transfer data back to your Garmin Overlander with a single click. Upload waypoints, routes, and tracks to your GPS and print a matching map out to take with you into the field. ExpertGPS even lets you upload Excel, Google Earth, CAD, and GIS data to your Garmin Overlander!

Maximize your GPS Memory

Your Garmin Overlander has limited storage space for waypoints, routes, and tracks. Once you reach that limit, your GPS can't hold any more data. Smart ExpertGPS users have figured out how to eke out every last bit of memory space on their Garmin GPS receivers. Before each outdoor adventure or visit to a project site, they use ExpertGPS to back up the contents of their GPS, and then clear the GPS data memory. They can then download as much data as possible onto their GPS (leaving some room for GPS data collection out in the field). When they get back, they use ExpertGPS to upload all of their Garmin waypoints, routes, and tracks onto their computer and save it. Once they've backed up the new data from their GPS, they can clear the memory again, keeping their GPS ready for their next trip.

Backup your Garmin Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks

Backup your Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks by using ExpertGPS to transfer them to your laptop or desktop computer. Now you've got a safe back-up of all of the important data on your Overlander, and use ExpertGPS to find and create new waypoints, routes, and tracks to download to your Garmin GPS. Before you update your Garmin Overlander firmware or install a custom basemap, Garmin recommends that you backup all of your GPS data. ExpertGPS gives you the peace-of-mind that your Garmin Overlander data is always safe.

Making Maps from your Garmin Overlander Data

Real 1:24000 USGS Topo Maps

View your Garmin Overlander waypoints, routes, and tracks over USGS topo maps and aerial photos. These are actual 1:24000 scale topographic maps from the US Geological Survey, giving you much more terrain detail than the maps that came with your Garmin.

Toggle between Topo, Aerial, and Color Orthophotos

Instantly switch between topo maps, aerial photos, and color urban imagery using the T, A, and U keys in ExpertGPS. This ability to toggle back-and-forth between several views of your GPS data is unique to ExpertGPS, and is one of its most popular features.

Give your maps a professional look

ExpertGPS comes preloaded with all the line patterns and cartographic styles you need to draw highways, railroad tracks, transmission lines, streams, and more. And the waypoint and track style editors let you create your own map symbols, change track colors, and customize exactly how your GPS and map data is drawn.

Boost your Garmin GPS data entry speed 500%!

Why waste time entering new waypoints on the tiny screen of your Garmin Overlander? ExpertGPS can do it 5x faster! Use the New Waypoint dialog in ExpertGPS to create new waypoints and POI listings for your Garmin GPS. As you type, ExpertGPS automatically suggests the best possible name for this waypoint on your GPS.

Calculating Area with your Garmin Overlander

Calculate Area (Acreage) using your Garmin Overlander

Calculate area with your Garmin Overlander. ExpertGPS automatically calculates the acreage of any parcel, field, or tract no matter how irregular, when you record the boundary with your Garmin Overlander or trace it over the maps in ExpertGPS. ExpertGPS allows you to calculate acreage in three different ways:
1. Calculate area by walking a perimeter with your GPS. ExpertGPS calculates the acreage enclosed by your Garmin Overlander tracklog.
2. Calculate area by marking GPS waypoints at the corners of a field or parcel. In ExpertGPS, connect those waypoints into a route, and the acreage is automatically calculated.
3. Calculate area by tracing over a map or aerial photo. Use the Track Tool in ExpertGPS to trace the property boundary or field, and let ExpertGPS calculate the number of square feet it encloses.

Garmin Overlander Waypoints and POIs

Maximize your Garmin waypoints

ExpertGPS lets you get the most out of the waypoints on your Garmin Overlander by making it easy to assign the best symbol and to give each waypoint a long, meaningful name (using a real keyboard, not the little controls on your GPS). Think about it:

Your Garmin Overlander can hold 1000 waypoints. Waypoints on the Garmin Overlander can contain up to 31 characters. Waypoint comments (notes) can contain up to 50 characters. How long would it take you to enter all of those waypoints by hand into your GPS? ExpertGPS will save you hours on this one task alone!

Add Photos and Notes to your waypoints

ExpertGPS lets you link a photo to any waypoint or POI and includes a built-in photo viewer. And you can add your own detailed description to any waypoint - store as much information as you need.

Prevent Data Entry Errors with ExpertGPS

GPS coordinates are easy to mis-type. Using the Waypoint Tool in ExpertGPS to create new waypoints reduces the chances of making a mistake when manually entering coordinates on your GPS. ExpertGPS takes care of all of the coordinate conversion and datum shifts when communicating with your Garmin Overlander, further reducing errors.

Create routes the easy way!

The Garmin Overlander can hold 50 routes, each containing up to 250 turns or stops. ExpertGPS lets you build up long routes quickly - just click waypoints one-by-one on the map to connect them into a route for your Garmin Overlander. Route names on the Garmin Overlander can contain up to 36 characters. ExpertGPS makes it easy to rename and organize your routes.

Tracklog Tricks for your Garmin Overlander

Trace new trails and roads to send to your Garmin Overlander

Did you know you could trace roads, trails, and other features on the maps in ExpertGPS, and send them directly to your Garmin Overlander? This is a quick and easy way to keep you on-track when out in the field.

Fix up GPS errors in your Garmin tracklog

Poor GPS satellite reception can cause all sorts of errors in your Garmin Overlander tracks. Use the advanced track editing tools in ExpertGPS to correct spikes and blips caused by intermittent GPS multipath errors. You can even select an entire segment of your GPS track and drag it right back to its correct location on the map!

Tracklog Specifications for your Garmin Overlander

The Garmin Overlander can hold 501 tracks. Saved tracklogs on the Garmin Overlander can have up to 10000 trackpoints. The active tracklog holds 10000 trackpoints. Track names on the Garmin Overlander can contain up to 36 characters.

Geotagging Photos with your Garmin Overlander

Save Hundreds of $$$ with Geotagging Software

You can spend hundreds of dollars on dedicated camera hardware and cables to geotag your photos. Or, you can do it for free, using ExpertGPS. ExpertGPS automatically matches up the timestamps on your digital photos with the times recorded in your Garmin Overlander track log. It just takes a few seconds when you get back to your desk to have ExpertGPS automatically geotag your photos.

Share your Photos on Flickr and Google Earth

Photos geotagged using ExpertGPS are 100% compatible with flickr.com, Google Earth, and any other geotagging software or Web site.

Batch-Edit your Photo Metadata

ExpertGPS lets you quickly view, change, or batch-edit your photo metadata. Select all the photos for the day, and quickly add the city, state, and location in which they were taken. Add and remove keywords and descriptions. View shutter speed, aperture, and other camera settings.

Revolutionize the way you collect data in the field

Still using paper forms, or typing data into your GPS piece-by-piece? With your digital camera around your neck, Garmin Overlander in your backpack or in your vehicle, and ExpertGPS back at your desk, you can gather data on the move. There's no need to mark waypoints as you collect data - just snap photos at each site. ExpertGPS can create geo-referenced waypoints for your report from each photo you took along the way, and attach your photos to each waypoint it creates.

Garmin Overlander Coordinate Conversion

Convert between any coordinate format or datum

Need to convert NAD27 lat/lon to WGS84 UTM? ExpertGPS does it automatically. Enter coordinates in any format, in any datum. To convert Garmin Overlander coordinates to any other format, just select that format in ExpertGPS. All of your data is automatically reprojected to the new format and datum.

Convert to and from US State Plane Coordinates

ExpertGPS Pro lets you work with data in any US State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS). Even though your Garmin Overlander doesn't natively support SPCS, you can use ExpertGPS Pro to convert data back and forth between state plane coordinates, lat/lon, and UTM.

Convert any address to latitude and longitude for your Garmin Overlander

ExpertGPS converts addresses to GPS coordinates with its built-in address geocoder. Enter any address in the US (or in several dozen other countries) and ExpertGPS will bring up a map of that location and create a GPS waypoint you can send to your Garmin Overlander.

Locate property using PLSS (Township, Range, Section) coordinates

The Go to TRS command in ExpertGPS Pro will take you directly to any township and range in 17 western US states, allowing you to locate land in the US Public Land Survey System quickly. As you move over the map, the current township, range, and section is displayed. ExpertGPS Pro can even overlay a PLSS grid from BLM or your state GIS department.

Viewing Garmin Overlander Data in Google Earth

View your Garmin Overlander data in Google Earth

With ExpertGPS, you'll be able to view all of your driving trips over the aerial photos in Google Earth, showing exactly where you went. This feature is so popular in ExpertGPS, we've added a hot key (F7) that will automatically launch Google Earth and zoom in on your driving waypoints and tracklogs. And, we've also added the ability to download KML files back to your Garmin Overlander

Layering Garmin Overlander Data with GIS Data

Convert Garmin Overlander waypoints and tracks to ArcGIS SHP format

ExpertGPS makes it easy to update your GIS database with GPS data recorded in the field. Simply mark waypoints or record a tracklog on your Garmin Overlander, and then use ExpertGPS to upload your GPS data and export it as a shapefile. And you can Send GIS layers to your Garmin Overlander as well.

Using Garmin Overlander Data in CAD

Convert Garmin Overlander waypoints and tracks to ACAD's DXF drawing format

ExpertGPS allows you to convert your Overlander tracklogs and waypoints to AutoCAD's DXF format in two easy steps. Send AutoCAD DXF to your Garmin Overlander

Garmin How To Unlock Maps Hacks

Download a fully-featured trial of ExpertGPS, or buy your copy today. We're so confident ExpertGPS will save you time (as a GPS data downloader, coordinate converter, map viewer and editor, and GIS, CAD, and GPS data converter) that we make this guarantee: if ExpertGPS doesn't pay for itself in 14 days, we'll refund your money - and you can keep the software!

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Comments

• You can call Garmin, but you likely bought a stolen GPS.
• It you used paypal, complain and return it. You can send it to Garmin to unlock, but if the device turns out to be stolen (and it may), Garmin reserves the right to return it to the registered owner and you're just out of luck. I don't recommend anyone buying a GPS via EBay.
• thanks, but is there a way, I just would like to know because i don't want to pay to fix that from garmin.com
• No, and if there was we wouldn't tell people either as that would defeat the purpose for people that are legitimately using the feature. People being caught in the cross-fire is unfortunate, but sometimes necessary.
• Two methods. Enter the PIN# or go to the user set safe unlock location. They call it something else but the name escapes me right now. Neither of these will help you without knowing the location the security code was set or the code itself. It's back to Garmin or back to the seller. No other option.
• I think Garmin charges $150 for the unlock too, according to other reader reports in the past.

• 
  No, and if there was we wouldn't tell people either as that would defeat the purpose for people that are legitimately using the feature. People being caught in the cross-fire is unfortunate, but sometimes necessary.

  Upon reflection, it may be that he stole it. He claims the seller won't respond, but also that the seller didn't know it needs a PIN (which indicates that the seller did in fact respond).

• Upon reflection, it may be that he stole it. He claims the seller won't respond, but also that the seller didn't know it needs a PIN (which indicates that the seller did in fact respond).

  I think the grammar is ambiguous-- I could read it either way. With the other grammatical errors in the post I'm not certain I'd read it that way.

  ebay seller wont respond and didn't know i needed a pin.

• A $150 key to unlock the unit. That should be deterrent enough for those that are looking to use a possibly stolen nuvi.
• the only way to get it unlocked is to send it back to garmin. i dont know if they charge a unlock fee . i doubt it but if it comes back stolen you wont be getting it back. i would let paypal know and how is this person's feedback on ebay? and also contact ebay about this also.
• The whole point of the PIN is to disable the unit in the event that some lowlife good for nothing lazy moron decids to break the window of your vehicle and help himself to your property. While you still have to deal with the broken window and replace the GPS, you have the satisfaction of knowing that your unit is locked and maybe whoever winds up with it can work their way back to the theif and kick his a**
  Do I sound bitter?
• Thst doesn't deter anyone.
  Offer like 10$ in a back alley for a 300$ GPS, there will be takers.
  Worst case scenario for the thief is dumping it in the garbage dump. Will he break a window next time ? You can be sure he will.
• There are another two ways I know to unlock Garmin PIN.
  Easiest of them is to play with firmware.

• There are another two ways I know to unlock Garmin PIN.
  Easiest of them is to play with firmware.

  Any further discussion of that would be beyond the rules of this forum.
• Start at 0000 and go up from there. Or start in the middle at 5000 and go up/down. Play it smart and try obvious combos first like 1234, 0000, 1111, 2222, 3333, etc. Start at 1950 and go up in case someone used their birth year. Depending on how ambitious you are, I'll bet one can be unlocked quicker than you think. :wink:
• I guess me adding in two weeks after the last post isn't as bad as four years....
  But it occurrs to me that the unlock location is probably the original owner's home. So if batzzz19 is still struggling through punching in all possible codes, he can push the home icon. Go there, and knock on the door. He will then be rewarded by the original owner either giving him the code, or giving him a modest reward for recovering the stolen unit. :)
  Ken
• How on earth would he get to the Home icon if the device is locked? :roll:

• is there a way to unlock my garmin nuvi 760. or should I say. I don't have the ability to gain access to the pin since I bought this from ebay.
  ebay seller wont respond and didn't know i needed a pin.
  can someone tell me what do next

  Never bought from ebay, but doesn't it have a way of policing sellers so they don't furnish bogus goods?

• How on earth would he get to the Home icon if the device is locked? :roll:

  Hmmm... I guess I didn't think that one through. :cry:
  Ken

• Never bought from ebay, but doesn't it have a way of policing sellers so they don't furnish bogus goods?

  Yes, eBay has buyer protection policies and conflict resoluton procedures. If the product was misrepresented, the buyer has a good chance of a ruling in his favor. If the listing description clearly indicated that the unit had a unknown lock code it would be the buyers responsibility to bid accordingly and take the chance.
• So the OP's first recourse would be to contact ebay, that is if the OP's legit.
• Well that was back in 2008 so I suspect the OP has figured it out one way or the other. As Tim pointed out, any discussion of bypassing the unlock code on a Nuvi is against forum rules.