Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

The Garmin maps are created using Mkgmap and Splitter, both of which are opensource tools. The website and scripts to combine the maps are written in PHP and are my work, and is where the problem lies currently.

Maybe I misunderstood the differences between gmapsupp.img and a single tile, but I thought it was not possible to just rename the file and expect it to work. Would be nice if it could though…

I finally found some time to fix the bugs, but I still don’t have a complete map. I’ve started a new map building process. This will take about one day to complete…

I’m available for testing :wink:

Thank you & Bye,
Frida

I’m not sure if this is the time or the place but I just wanted to say a very, very big “thank you” for your work on the routable Garmin map (at http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php)). It is much appreciated.
Cheers ! :slight_smile:

Hehe, well I screwed things up quite badly last Friday but it’s coming together quite nicely now so I hope to have new maps somewhere this evening (CET).

I love to see it being used again and see enthusiastic responses on this and other forums like GroundSpeak. Projects like this can bring OpenStreetMap much needed publicity to an audience to whom they would normally not come in contact.

Der_Frida, if you want me to contact you then please add an email address to your forum profile.

Update: I have no idea what’s going on, but some of the recently generated maps cause MapSource to crash (at least version 6.13.7). Somehow it seems that this just doesn’t want to work… :frowning:

Update: The tiles that crash MapSource work fine on my GPS so I leave them on the server and add a warning on the website. If MapSource crashes because of a bad tile then the popup will list the name of that file. You can safely delete that file and restart MapSource. It will not harm your computer or MapSource installation permanently :slight_smile:

Update: I added cache prevention for the KML files, so the browser always loads the latest version.

I found the http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php web site a couple of weeks ago. I downloaded some individual tiles and made a gmapsupp.img file with mkgmap, which worked great in a Garmin Ique 3600 and a Garmin 60CSx.

I wanted to check some modified and new POIs and roads, so I have been waiting for the tile generation bugs to be fixed. Today I have been getting “Not found” error messages when I try to download an individual tile ( tried several tiles from USA and Europe so far).
Example: http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/63240012.img

I then tried the “Build maps” button and downloaded the zip file with gmapsupp.img, that img is not
recognized in either the Ique 3600 or the 60CSx.

I want to thank Lambertus for this wonderful capability to download a routable garmin map for anywhere in the world with the latest OSM data!

Ha, that is… an option :slight_smile:

That is a bug that I hadn’t found yet…thanks for reporting it.

This is strange, because it works on my 60CSx. Did you extract the img from the zip and placed that img in the /Garmin folder on the SD-card?

You are welcome!

Lambertus wrote:
“This is strange, because it works on my 60CSx. Did you extract the img from the zip and placed that img in the /Garmin folder on the SD-card?”

Doh! Of course I unzipped, but I was using a fresh microSD card (that came with the 60CSx) and forgot
to make a garmin folder.

I forget whether I requested tiles from California or France, but it seems that what I got seems to be from
Poland.

The tile layout on the world map seems to have very nearly the same sizes and layout as before, but the
tile numbers are very different.

Again you found a bug, this time in the map making process where the maps from America are renamed from 6xxxxxxx.img to 7xxxxxxxx.img in order to avoid naming conflicts with the other tiles. This works fine, but I forgot to rename those numbers in the KML used for the website as well.

It’s fixed now. Sorry.

Yehaaa… I’ve downloaded whole Germany and put it on my device and everything works fine. I think the major bugs are fixed.

Thanks & have a nice weekend.

Hi Lambertus,
I tried to install the routable maps of the centre of NL, but they keep crashing in mapsource:
tiles 63240105 and 63240103, I use mapsource 6.13.7

That’s indeed what the red line on top of the webpage says. It’s probably because you are lucky to live in one of the most densely mapped areas in the world. This is probably a bug in Mkgmap, I’m trying to debug it.

I also downloaded from http://www.team-oid.de/garmin_maps/ the maps of NL, which are routable and working so it should be possible. Those maps produce weird errors however on my Garmin Etrex, like in case of a left turn the direction on the screen shows a right turn-off, navigation on motorways for cyclists etc. so I wonder how your maps were doing. :sunglasses:

My maps are currently also leading cyclists onto a motorway for longer routes unfortunately. I have already reported this behavior to the Mkgmap dev list.

Regarding the maps that crash MapSource: I guess it’s a question of luck if a tile causes it, because when I split the world again it might be that that area isn’t causing the problem that time. For example: in my previous version the north scandinavian tile caused MapSource to crash, I don’t know if it still does with this version.

Some map requests have failed today because the server harddisk was full. The problem has been resolved, but many unique and very large requests within 48 hours can trigger this again. I deleted directories with partial or completely failed builds. Please request again if your download link gives an “404 - Page not found” error.

Well, my next f*ckup has happened: I modified the cleanup script a bit which accidentally caused it to remove all combine request results. So if you happen to get a 404, page not found error, you will have to do your request again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Lambertus!

First of all, I’m for sure the next one in the row to say thanks to your great service! :smiley:

But as always, I also have a question to you…

About two weeks ago, you told some people to wait for your next map update to see if address search might work now. Therefore, I tried a map request for Germany today (finished in less than one hour, wow!) and tested the gmapsupp.img on my GPSMap 60Cx and my Nüvi 760TFM.

On both, only searching for streets seems to work, but not searching for cities. The Nüvi simply finds nothing when looking for a city while the GPSMap opens a very long list of towns, but tells me “nothing found” as soon as I only enter one letter.

(On the GPSMap, you can sometimes find an address by the following process: enter some “number” in the first field, enter the street name in the 2nd field and leave the city field empty. Now you should get a list of the named street in different cities - however, this list seems to be quite incomplete.)

So two questions:

  • Was someone (probably you?) successful with the address search with the current maps?
  • Which mkgmap snapshot do you exactly use? It would be great service if you could always announce the currently used SVN revision on the web site so one can see what the cards should provide…

Thanks again!

Gernot

Not everyone is technical enough to keep an eye on the Mkgmap SVN repository so I don’t think it’s useful to add the Mkgmap SVN version on the website. I try to use the latest (or one of the latest) Mkgmap versions available.

Address search:

Regarding searching for streetnames and addresses, I found the following on the Mkgmap mailinglist. (Afaik, this does not work for nüvi owners yet):

Does this help you?

Please note that routing and especially looking up addresses is considered beta in Mkgmap, so don’t expect it to work flawlessly. I’m sure quality will improve in time.

Well, I can’t really follow your first argument. Including the SVN release would help people like me to see if you already use the latest one or if I have to test on my own. And it won’t disturb others who don’t understand what an SVN release is all about. Anyone out there should have a rough understanding about the concept of versions, so why should it confuse people? And if e.g. people using your maps will complain at the mkgmap people they can at least include some needed information. I don’t see why this hurts anyone.

If it’s too laborous for you, I can certainly understand, though… :slight_smile:

About the limitations: that’s really great, thanks! I never tried entering the full city name. Now that works great for some cities - probably those ones which have the borders mapped in a correct fassion. However, I’m not able to search for cities with German Umlauts like München. :frowning:

But I think I’ll check the missing bits with the mkgmap people directly.

Thanks for your quick answer and keep up the great work!!

Maybe not on the web site but you could add that somewhere in the dataset description, such as “OSM map (r991)”. This might help to find bugs in mkgmap when somebody identifies a special case in a specific map version.