I am using Mapsource. Clearing the cache didn’t help, I’m afraid. I still see no map detail when I zoom in closer than 200 miles.
I didn’t even think of using another mapping program to look at these OSM files. Is there some software easily and commercially available to do so? Mapsource and I have never been particularly good friends.
First of all, Lambertus, you are the MAN! This is really great. My first exposure to OSM was ‘Map Kibera.’ I’m in Nairobi and those guys are very cool folks. The OSM maps have come in handy for the piki (motorcycle) rides into the bush. We are mapping and addition as much as we can. As we learn this process.
Second, I am a Mac user. Sorry to all the massive amounts of PC guys here, but it’s just the plan truth. It is quite difficult to find good resources for grassroots, code rich, stuff. So, I ask you on behalf of my fellow Mac brethren, to once again consider, at the very least, providing a download for the world wide map, in all the formats you put out.
Your service is incredibly unique. Just today, I was helping a friend use your map to just download the tiles he needed for a European tour. Works perfectly for his needs! But you are the only guy putting out the Mac friendly files who has the whole world. I really need the whole world and you are the only guy with it. I tried clicking 99% of the tiles, but it failed and said the URL was to long. I read that a long time ago you said that any request with at least 70% of the tiles would shoot out a pre-combined tile package. I didn’t get that 
Thanks all for the kind words 
REH: I can reproduce your problems, although sometimes I can get MapSource to show the NZ map below 200m zoom by scrolling around a bit, but when zooming in even further even that doesn’t help anymore. I don’t know what’s causing it. The problem does not occur in other areas (I tested the Netherlands myself). It could be a problem with the OSM data somewhere or an unfortunate coincidence. I’ll update the tools for the next run, maybe that’ll solve the problem.
zulusafari: I’m sorry to have to disappoint, but even after your plea I still don’t see why it’s necessary to provide a single map of the whole world.
So I think the limitation for smaller sections of the world is still warranted.
There is a solution though. If you truly want to have a single map of the world get a planet dump, Splitter, Mkgmap, gmapibuilder and you’ll be able to generate your own map. All the tools are opensource, just look them up in the OSM wiki.
Note: currently the tile selection limit is around 250 tiles (out of around 1500 available tiles). E.g. the most densely mapped countries like The Netherlands are currently 57 tiles and Germany is 107.
Hi Lambertus Thanks for the mapping. They will be used in Costa Rica in Feb. My question is about the ocean colour. Do the maps show white or is it a setting I am missing on my GPS? I use a 60C and a Nuvi. Thanks for the maps Scobs
Ocean color is an old problem that is slowly being solved. My previous attempts showed that the ocean polygons could not be correctly generated. Some important work has recently been done to solve this problem, but I haven’t had the opportunity to check if it’s workable on a global scale yet.
But, rest assured, if the ocean polygon code works fine then I surely will use it for the maps.
Lambertus:
Thanks for looking into the “problem” with New Zealand. My neurosis is now under control again. I will await your further efforts. In the meantime I meant every word I said about your extraordinary work here. The idea of my having to deal with OSM files, map makers, and Java code gives me terminal shakes.
REH
Lambertus, I think you are a Star! In fact, I consider this an essential service for every Garmin user. As word of this spreads and OSM coverage gets better expect usage to skyrocket.
Have you given any thought of opening this up as a community project? For when it starts to outgrow your time and money supply?
Kind regards,
Peter.
Thanks 
I absolutely don’t have any problem in supplying all code. I already posted parts of it on the Mkgmap mailinglist. It’s just that the whole toolchain is tailored to a specific mix of machines and configurations to generate the tiles, move them to the fileserver and yet another server is used for the webinterface. The webserver on the fileserver also needs write access to specific directories. It’s really a mess to understand and to set up.
But I’ll see if I can put a zip somewhere with some basic documentation, then anyone can play to hearts content!
Lambertus,
Thanks for the new release of the osm routable map for garmin.
Just to let you know that I am not getting any updated map for the last 2 downloads (02-12-2010 and latest 19-12-2010). The map and poi and all its data remains the same as before 02-12-2010. For example, I made a spelling correction from “Mainpal Hospital” to “Manipal Hospital” before 02-12-2010 but still in the latest map of 19-12-2010, I am getting the old spelling only. I am not getting any changes to the map or new POIs in the latest maps.
Are you somehow, missing the updated data for INDIA or I am doing something wrong.
I do lot of contribution to the OSM map almost every day but its little bit disappointing when I do not get those changes in the maps when I download the new map. I do a regular watch of your map release and whenever its available, I download it on my Garmin to test.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Very Very Happy new Year.
-Nand
Thanks for the heads-up. You are right. Something went wrong and the process has probably used an old planet version. I’ll start a new update now.
Hello and seasons greetings to everyone
I’m new to this forum but not to the gps community at large. Since this is my 1st post i’d like to start by thanking Lambertus for his tremendous efforts and everyone who has shared interesting insights.
I also take this opportunity to ask a couple of basic questions: what is the simplest way to narrow down the tile sizes to include only data that is relevant to given users? Can the world tiles be edited by the entire community or only by Lambertus?
I am asking this because I cannot get the country I am in without also having to download entire other countries, as the tiles in some parts of the world are just too large and encompass very vast areas.
Thank you.
Mus
Welcome to the OSM community.
If you’re only interested in a small part of the world and you have some technical skills and some time then you can create your own Garmin map based upon OSM data.
For a single tile country the process is simple:
But I must add that a single tile is usually very small (a few MB) and therefore I do not see any harm in having a bit of data from other countries in your map. So I would not take the trouble and just use the maps provided on my website.
Though in the part of the world I live in, which is sparsely mapped, a single tile contains data for 7 different countries. That will change with the recent availability of Bing for tracing, however,
Is the new update available to download now?
It’s uploading as I type this.
Is something going on with the server? I’ve tried 2 times to download one tile NZ-Auckland the first time there was 170 in the queue I waited 24 hours and didnt get the email. so tried again with about the same result, now there is 240 odd in the queue, but its been nearly a week since I tried the first time. Ive never seen it take this long, so something else must be going on.
Thanks for any help
Ok false alarm. I think when I was putting in the email address it was using one Id previously used that was wrong. Sent it to another address and its come through fine. keep up the good work, always appreciated!
It looks like these last few days people are requesting maps like crazy. Since the 26th the disk utilisation is at maximum all the time and that’s the cause of the massive backlog in request processing (around 266 now). I guess it requires some patience now and then…
Edit: Perhaps something nice to know: Since record keeping started in April 2009, the service received it’s 100.000th map render request on November 28, 2010. Of course there have been many more downloads (as the most requested map combinations are stored in a cache and can be downloaded immediately without sending a render request), but I don’t keep those statistics. The service is getting around 140k hits and is using about 200 to 300 GB bandwidth each month.
Would donations help? If so, I’m willing to add a little…
Thanks for map, but i have a problem. Install map of China region into my Windows mobile phone Garmin-ASUS M10E. I see map, but without route. Then i try to find chinees city - i cant change country - i see only “Russia” from official garmin map (ihave it with my phone).
As a new member I would like to say Hi and also say thankyou for the work and time that has been put into this site by all.
Congratulations Lambertus on such a great site.
Cheers
Greg