Thanks for your input, but BOINC or VM’s aren’t necessary, a ‘simple’ application that can download tiles and use Mkgmap to build a custom map on the client pc is all that is needed. This has been discussed before and I have plans to start developing that application next winter, although anyone with an interest can contact me for input (or not) and start creating such an application at any time. 
Is there a problem on the web site? I get this at the top of the page:
Get map definition. (version: 13-04-2011, update: )
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/garmin/domains/garmin.openstreetmap.nl/public_html/index.php on line 83
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/garmin/domains/garmin.openstreetmap.nl/public_html/index.php on line 85
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/garmin/domains/garmin.openstreetmap.nl/public_html/index.php on line 87
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/garmin/domains/garmin.openstreetmap.nl/public_html/index.php on line 88
Free routable maps for Garmin brand GPS devices
Yep, I noticed that too this morning. I updated the map version but did not check if everything worked as expected (I really should have done that after moving to the new webhost). Anyway, it appears that the webserver is more restricted on this new host. I’m busy working around this and hope to finish this somewhere today…
Edit: Sorry, I couldn’t finish it yesterday and today most likely not as well. I’m going to test your patience some more…
Question: what do you use for $max_nodes and where do you get the $mapid and $name variables?
Thanks.
$max_nodes = 1200000 in my previous releases and, as a test, 14000000 in the latest which has not been released yet but I needed to reduce the --max-areas to 130 (memory usage is a multiplication of (among others) max-nodes and max-areas, so if you increase max-nodes you need to reduce max-areas otherwise there is a chance java will run out of memory).
$mapid and $name are just ‘constants’ defined at the top of my build script, ‘63240000’ and ‘world’ respectively.
Lambertus,
Thanks for your reply. I was able to build the map and installed without problem on my Garmin. MapSource is not happy though:
App: MapSource
At: 4/19/2011 7:46:51 PM (UTC)
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit) Service Pack 1
Processor: x86, Processor Level: 6, Processors:2, Model: 23 Stepping: 10, RAM: 4087836
TDB_REGIONDIR.CPP-103-6.16.3.0
Language ID: 1033
Part Number: 006-A0041-00
Build Type: Release
Guess I will have to ask in the mkgmap list.
Help, http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php doet het niet meer! Wat nu, we gaan vrijdag naar Israël!
You can do that ofcourse, although I recently noticed that recent MapSources don’t load the OSM map if it’s the only one installed. Installing two or more maps and selecting the OSM map will show it. Really strange. Perhaps this is your problem? If not, are there any error reports?
Answered earlier via email.
Anyway, I think most of the problems are gone now and I’ll upload a new version of the website any time now. I’m doing a few test renders to see if things seem normal again and then the site will go live again.
I have other maps installed. This is very strange. If I remove the map I created, it all loads fine. The map generated won’t load at all. I took the OSM data for North Carolina from cloudmade and processed per your posts. The map displays some icons (green circle) that I don’t see on your maps, so I am wondering if you are using any special TYP file?
I will try to report the issue on the mkgmap list later today or tomorrow. One thing I noticed is that newer versions of mkgmap are much faster on rendering. Probably twice as fast, just FYI.
In the past I have downloaded tiles, combined them with with Mkgmap using a script file. Recently I downloaded a group of tiles and the combiner failed, complaining "
C:\Garmin\Maps\OSM_World_Routable>java.exe -Xmx512M -enableassertions -jar c:\Ga
rmin\Map_Tools\MKGMAP\mkgmap.jar --max-jobs --ignore-osm-bounds --route --family
-id=2020 --overview-mapname=53240000 --tdbfile --index --keep-going --drive-on-r
ight --overview-mapnumber=53240000 --family-name=“OSM ras_oscar” c:\Garmin\Maps
OSM_World_Routable*.img
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at java.nio.Buffer.position(Unknown Source)
at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.Utils.bytesToString(Utils.java:75)
at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.sys.ImgHeader.setHeader(ImgHeader.java:212)
at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.sys.ImgFS.readInitFS(ImgFS.java:310)
at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.sys.ImgFS.openFs(ImgFS.java:129)
at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.sys.ImgFS.openFs(ImgFS.java:122)
at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.combiners.FileInfo.imgInfo(FileInfo.java:185)
at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.combiners.FileInfo.getFileInfo(FileInfo.java:14
7)
at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.main.Main.endOptions(Main.java:366)
at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.CommandArgsReader.readArgs(CommandArgsReader.ja
va:124)
at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.main.Main.main(Main.java:122)
Have there been changes to anything in the data structures that would cause this error string? I have not changed either mkgmap or java in well over the year since i used it last.
Still works for me, version 1795.
The website is updated yesterday and it should work fine again, although I released it in a rush (had to go to bed).
Nope, I’m using the default Mkgmap style and no TYP file.
Faster rendering is nice to have ofcourse, although in the grand scheme of (my) things rendering is not the most time-consuming job. Thanks for the heads-up.
Ras_Oscar: Sorry, I don’t have a clue… Did you download the tiles from my website? And from which version? 13-04-2011 or 07-03-2011?
Lambertus, the link to the template file world.kml gives a 404. Could you repair it? I like this file
Lambertus,
The web site looks ok now, but it’s missing the date of the extract. There is just a ‘1’ there now.
Regards,
Peter.
Thanks, both, for the reports.
I’ve updated the link so that it redirects to the current template file. But I must add, that I’m moving away from this file towards the countries.js file which will include the coordinates and tile availability at some point in the future. I’ll probably keep uploading the world.kml file after the migration, but won’t guarantee that unless there are very good reasons to keep supporting that file.
Fixed.
Edit: The past site-outage was a nice test: the 150gb disk was almost empty when the site came online again and was full after exactly 30h.
That would be all I ask for. The format is not important. Just that somewhere you tell which area is covered by a tile.
Cool developments
Ligfietser is going strong with his little TYP file project for the routable maps and I’ll add one of my own:
I’ve been given an offer for another host to store maps on and this offer is much more serious then the offer last month (which doesn’t seem to go anywhere). So it’s time to make some choices: I could use this new opportunity to host maps that include the Ligfietser TYP file (or even any TYP) so that users can choose which map they want and I can get a feeling about using or not using a TYP file by default. Alternatively I could use this host to split country/custom maps between the two servers and hereby greatly reduce the waiting time.
Wishes, suggestions? Input is welcome!
First I’d like to say, thanks so much for all the effort and great product.
Now I have a question, I’m using a 62s, and a Mac. I was hoping that the Garmin MapManager software would merge the downloaded maps, but it doesn’t seem to. I just replaced Germany with Albania. Now I’m thinking if I push that to my device using Garmin MapInstall, I’ll lose Germany.
So the question is, without trying to select every tile in Europe, does anyone know how I can get all of Europe on my system for Road Trip, etc…, and then device at once? Any help is appreciated!
Check out http://www.javawa.nl/gmtk.html which should do exactly what you’re looking for. (Maybe use Google translator if you cannot read dutch).
Hope this helps…
Great news: I’ve added a second server to the service. It will host all new non-country map requests for the time being (that was easiest to implement). Let’s see how the queues develop.