That road is very new (created on january 19th) so I guess it just wasn’t in the planet dump used for this map update. It’s probably best if you check again a future update and see if it is still missing (I guess not, there is no reason why it shouldn’t be in the Garmin maps).
OK. I’ll try in some weeks again.
Thanks for the quick answer.
Could someone explain to me why my osm maps display as green blotches on my oregon 450 instead of a solid green for forest areas.
Wow! There are around 735 requests in the queue right now and the number keeps rising. Did something happen?
Nope, nothing special afaik. I don’t see anything new in the top referrers either. Maybe people are preparing for a holiday? I don’t know…
The service is working fine though.
Lucky you! On my Zumo forests are brown diagonal stripes. You need to go to the mkgmap compiler mailing list and complain about that.
Cheers,
Peter.
That is because the default styles don’t have a typ file yet.
Maybe installing this typ file will help?
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=10032
Please note that you will need a tool like mapset toolkit to install a typ file:
See http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ligfietser/diverse/mapsettoolkit.jpg
For users who are only interested in generating a gmapsupp.img file the solution to do it yourself is not far away.
There exists already longtime a (free) program sendmap20.exe (with sendmap.exe). http://cgpsmapper.com/buy.htm which combines such tiles to one gmapsupp.img file. (I did not test the linux version).
Once a user selected tiles on your site and downloaded them sendmap20 will make an gmapsupp.img file out of them.
(sendmap20 can send the .img to the garmin device too. But I’m not interested in this possibility as I just put the .img on the microSD card. I’m not intereste to show them in Mapsource either.).
So the only problem is to download the selected files.
Yesterday I wrote a program for that. Once the tiles are selected ( I used Firefox) I select all tiles -which are summarised in the left margin of your webpage). Then click right on the selection and choose “source of selection”. The contents of the window that opens has to be copy/pasted in my program which then downloads all tiles.
Then it is just only select all img files in explorer and drop them on sendmap20. Today I tested this on windows 7. All worked.
Hi Lambertus,
There is a big hole in the middle of Thailand again.
Cheers,
Peter.
Sorry Peter, I haven’t fixed the country matching algorithm yet. Fortunately you only have to manually add 1 missing tile.
Ok, I didn’t realise that. Even more fortunate, I can choose Laos and only loose a few km in the very South, which I don’t need right now anyway.
Kind regards,
Peter.
Lambertus: servis is not working… I have been already waitnig 6 days for my map to be built. Just requested it again and realised there is 962 requests in the queue. Need a map of Morrocco for my next week overland trip to north Africa - please help !!!
Afaik the service is working, the current oldest request in the queue is created the 10th 15:18 (looks like the delay guestimate is fairly accurate). I also still get emails from people, who can’t get their heads around installing maps and such, who received their email recently (in the last 2 days). The service is simply overwhelmed, i.e. more requests coming in than it can process per time unit.
Also, there isn’t a jump the queue function (not even for me :p). All I can suggest is to get your map early with room to spare for busy times.
I still got no email and did already 3 requests since feb 9th. Just look at the queue Lambertus, it is nearly 1000 requests pending !
If you need a map quickly here is how to get it:
Select the country you want. Download the tiles you need individually from the list on the left, under the email link.
Download MapsetToolkit from somewhere and use that to install the tiles into MS.
Works like a charm.
Lambertus: you may remember that I said to expect this to take off like a rocket. Now it does. I’m happy to contribute a few Es to increase computing power. What you have built is so good and essential for Garmin users that it deserves to have more resources.
Kind regards,
Peter.
What’s your email address (the one you provided when requesting the map)? I can lookup your email address and touch the file so it jumps the queue (note to lurkers: this is an exception!). You can just post your email address here or set it in your forum profile…
Edit 1: Watch the machine being busy or waiting for disk space.
Edit 2: Hmm, just tried that with a request of my own, but I don’t have rights to touch the files which the webserver created and I’m not in the sudoer file so can’t boss it around either…
Edit 3: Added two simple scripts for the webserver to overcome the problem above. One can search for a string in the requests (e.g. email address) and lists the matching files. The other touches the a given filename (sets the date back one month) so that it jumps the queue. Note to hackers: need to probe for the url’s, access is restricted to two IP’s only 
Note to desperate users: no need to contact me, I don’t have the time or will to move you up the queue. I will only use these scripts to check if the whole map building chain is working.
Edit 4: Reduced the availability time of the maps from 48 to 42 hours. This will speedup the queue a bit.
Edit 5: My request that jumped the queue has completed and I received the email. So everything is working fine. Emu777, can you check your SPAM folders, maybe the emails got classified as spam…
I just sent you a massage with my email. Still havent got any response from the service…
Marocco is only two tiles at the moment. So download those two tiles manually and put them together with sendmap20.exe (as I described on this page) or with MapsetToolkit (as Beddhist described).
You can also use two micro-SD cards. Put a tile on each and rename each tile to gmapsupp.img. Big change that you only need one tile.
You should definately have gotten the email by now. I had a request right after yours and I received the email around 01:30 CEST.
If you didn’t get the email then there is most likely a problem at your end. But the Moroccan and Mauretanian maps are available for direct download on the server. Mauretania contains all of Western Africa including all of Morocco.
Yes, I remember you said that and you’re probably right. Previously some things have been discussed like using free external file hosting, but I didn’t like the conditions under which they provide hosting. So I’ve asked my sponsor to upgrade my server to at least 250Gb harddisk space (I now have ~100 Gb), I expect to hear from them in about 1-2 weeks (holiday in between). If they don’t agree then I might start moving faster to my last solution: the clientside map compiling and installing Java application. I’m steadily getting a clearer picture about the way I want to make it and this is probably where I want to move to eventually. There’s only so much server power and storage realisticly available.
I do get emails from people who would like to contribute some money for this service, but it’s feeling like a major hurdle for me to take (psycologically speaking). I also wonder if that will work out well because a dedicated server in the US with flat fee bandwidth is around $90/month and if I want to do the same in the Netherlands it would be more then Eur 100 for the traffic alone(!). I really don’t know what to expect from donations but I don’t see it covering the costs for hosting (could be wrong though, but I don’t have any experience with donations). So, as things stand now, I’d love to solve the growth problems within my current sponsoring conditions.