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.
Lambertus, thanks a million for this wonderful service!
I requested the Tunisia Map on Friday last week (the website stated that the map of 10-02 would be used) and received an email this evening with the link to the map. The link “[…]garmin/routable/30-01-2011/[…]” still states the date of 30-01-2011 and the map also seems to be from that date because I do not see any of the changes that have been done to the map since.
Is this normal?? Thanks.
Kind regards from Tunisia
Yep, that is normal. You requested the map when 30-01-2011 was the latest version, so that version is used for your request. If it would switch to the newest version automatically then your map would be totally messed up because the tilenumbers are different between versions (or, when they are the same for the same region, that is pure luck). If you want a map using the data from the current version then you’ll have to request your map again. But, please, don’t do that on every update, the server is already busy enough…
Thanks for the quick reply! Makes totally sense. I can live with the normal “TN-Tunis” map on a daily basis. Only sometimes I need the entire Tunisia map. Thanks anyway for all the work!
We should encourage the people to download the tiles by themselves and compile them with mkgmap. It is very easy to do, I wrote a post in our local page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Argentina explaining the steps (It’s in Spanish)
Indeed, and lots of people do so already, but there are more people that don’t want to go through the trouble of trying to determine the tilesizes, splitting a country dump, rendering them with all the options and installing them in MapSource/BaseCamp/etc. For Argentina the process is reasonably straighforward but for countries that are more complex it is quite demanding.
If you download the tiles then you don’t have to do all those things. You cannot even do them. The only thing once downloaded is to put all tiles in one file. Sendmap20.exe will do in a glance. Mkgmap would be overkill for such a simple task.
That is a different story. I wonder how many people want that? Do you have statistics of your service downloads?
OpenStreetMap data from: 12-02-2011. Current queue: 1227 requests (delay: ~5.1 days).
We are witnessing the succes of this site. Last week it was about 800 requests.
And then I saw 1000 and then 1100.
How will this go on?
Are there requests to just try it out?
Certainly, but that only works for Windows and if Germany or the Netherlands are of your interest then we’re talking about clicking and downloading ~80-140 individual tiles.
A quick scan on this months downloads:
mapsource =2210
gmapsupp = 1757
roadtrip = 534
linux tiles.zip = 1226
But I notice that individual tiles also get downloaded a lot: 6237x in total.
The number of downloads would be higher, ofcourse, if the service would be able to process requests faster… Caching seems to be working fine as e.g. one gmapsupp.img is downloaded 110x.
Thanks for the quick info.
But this can be read as: from the 1580 people who downloaded data for mapsource 1008 downloaded gmapsupp too.
What I really would like to know is how many people only downloaded the gmappsupp. ( I’m one of them).
Sorry, I messed up in Excel. Anyway it’s difficult to get what you want. For that I would have to parse the apache logs and match all the ip adresses, but I don’t have access to the logs, only awstats (which doesn’t list the IP addresses).
OpenStreetMap data from: 12-02-2011. Current queue: 1378 requests (delay: ~5.7 days).
And the summer still has to come…
Once the selected tiles are downloaded you only need sendmap20 to combine them to a gmapsupp.img file. Both for Windows and Linux there is a free sendmap executable: http://cgpsmapper.com/buy.htm For windows no installation required. Just unzip. (I did not test the Linux version).
For Netherlands and Germany you would provide a ready to download map. But for for the rest I fully agree with you. Download many tiles manually is not a pleasant task. That’s where a download program could come in handy. So I made one.
My suggestion is: You could advocate on your site that people who are only interested in a gmapsupp.img file to download the selected tiles and put them together themselves with sendmap20. If they need a download program (for windows) they could use mine (no installation required).
And thinking further ahead in case you’re interested: Then an extra button next to the selected tiles which brings to another page where all tiles are summarized and where the -tile url’s- selection could be easily copied to clipboard. Further some text and links to where to obtain sendmap and a/the downloader(s).
Right, back from a holiday and an email box full of complaints 
Anyway, I looked at the queue handler once more and discovered a bug that allowed some requests to linger longer in the queue then others (i.e. the queue is not properly sorted on date of request). This is now fixed. Apologies to those who had to wait extra long, lucky you who got their map faster then others 8|
I also like the suggestion from one emailer (Steve from UK) who suggested that I provided a tracking number for each request and a webpage that allows to see the current status of the request. This is easy to do as all the components needed are already in place, so I expect to add that in the coming days after I’ve catched up with the online world.
Greencaps: I’ll think about your suggestions, but I’d like to keep it as simple as possible for people. But, as Windows users are probably the largest group, I might consider a NSIS installer that downloads the tiles and prepares the map on the users computer. That way I don’t have to write a complete application but only the installer script (e.g. NSIS has a download plugin) and it’s only a matter of running through a bunch of installer options which is fairly familiar for most people.
But what would be installed? Which program would concatenate the .img tiles to a gmapsupp.img file? And how would the installer know which tiles had to be downloaded?
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Features
"The NSIS distribution includes a set of plug-ins that allow you to download files from the internet, make internet connections, patch existing files and more.
But on this page: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Category:Plugins a download plugin is not mentioned. And the internet plugin only gives you a hostname and so.
I was interested in your solution so inmediately had a look. But if I cannot find examples of how to use a download plugin yhe investigation stops…
Ok. After more searching: its called NSISdl
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Builtin_NSISdl_plug-in
Well, I primarily mulled this over during holiday without internet access, so I might not have a complete picture, but…The idea was that the NSIS installer contains only the script instead of the script AND the tiles. That would free-up much needed disk space.
Based upon the request of the user I can generate a NSIS script that includes the tilenames (URL) that NSIS should download. A quick search before packing learned that NSIS has a download plugin which seemed to be what I’d need, but I didn’t investigate further, it might not be what I expect it to be.
I initially did not intend the NSIS installer to create the gmapsupp.img as well, but perhaps the NSIS installer could also download and install Mkgmap… I don’t know about that yet. On the other hand, the gmapsupp.img.zip is also needed for people using Linux or OSX, so it doesn’t really help using NSIS for creating gmapsupp images to save server disk space.
Edit: What about this plugin?
Edit2: Ah, I see you’ve found an alternative
Edit3: There’s even an Java JRE installer and application launcher script for NSIS
But that is terrible complex and which user want to install NSIS, JAVA and mkgmap just to generate his own gmapsupp.img? Do you realise how many MB’s have to be installed for that? And not every Java will do as mkgmap wants a pretty new version.
You said “I’d like to keep it as simple as possible for people” but in this way you are not.
No far simpler is what i suggested.
My idea:
-Most users who want to work with josm have to install java anyway
-nsis doesnt need to be installed by the user, it is only needed to convert a script into an exe file, the user only have to run this setup.exe
-mkgmap can be packed into this exe file and run by the installer without any complications, the only thing that is needed is that java is installed on the pc
-mkgmap will combine the (already downloaded?) tiles into one map (it creates an index which takes hardly a few minutes), the setup.exe installs this into the windows register
So to my opinion the best way to do it, is that the user goes to the osm site, clicks on the map and select the tiles he/she wants to download.
The tiles are downloaded as well as a small installer file which contains mkgmap. On the computer the user can choose to
a) compile a gmapsupp from the tiles with mkgmap (tiles will be deleted) - maybe this can be done with sendmap without mkgmap
b) install the tiles into mapsource with or without a gmapsupp,
c) the user can choose with or without a typ file and also a selection of typ files is possible (if provided)
For my maps this solution will make it also more convenient. I don’t have to create installers for the whole Benelux, a seperate gmapsupp and Germany (and maybe a few more countries) but simply
have to split the europe extract into a certain amount of tiles. The user can pick and choose the ones he is interested in. At the moment someone who wants a bike map of his region has to download and install the whole Benelux (500mb). For one version of the Benelux I have to use 1,5gb of disk space, instead one 500mb (gmap, windows and mac versions). So its a win win solution, and I think we can ask for the users also something in return (install java, thats all).
That’s why I initially said that NSIS isn’t a serious option for the gmapsupp.img, only for installing the MapSource version. No additional applications are needed for that, neither JAVA/mkgmap or Sendmap20. Besides the complexity, it doesn’t save CPU cycles or disk space on the server which this is all about. But -in theory- an NSIS installer could be an all-you-need option for Windows users.
But, on second thought, Sendmap20 would be better and easier to use for uploading to the GPS then Mkgmap. It could also be used as an extra step in the MapSource installer (Install the map in MapSource and/or send the map to the GPS).