A hint from the german forum: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions
That could be a starter for regionalised routing done bei mkgmap.
I read there that it is very questionable to do so. Better set the access tags correctly in OSM than let it done by mkgmap.
In an ideal world: yes. But with our ever-imperfect Wiki-like OSM data, it should be OK to have country-defaults which can be overwritten by specific tags. Once again: I’m thinking of the normal user who just wants to download a map for his Garmin and then intends it to behave like the all the other navigation devices which uses commercial data (or better, naturally).
Hi,
Would it be possible to select a couple of countries to get a map from. Like when I travel to spain, I’d love to select Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain in one go and get that map. I am capable of getting the seperate tiles and combine them to a map, but if I could download one in one go, that would be easier 
Best regards, Peter
I downloaded a custom mapset for use on my PC in MapSource v6.13.7 (I know its old but its the version I prefer as it uses a better projection). Lakes and rivers are shown in blue but the sea is shown in the same yellowy colour as is the land. Are there any solutions to change the colour to a more appropriate one, say blue?
Yes, there are two solutions:
- Wait until Lambertus will render the sea because this isn’t rendered yet
- Make your own map with mkgmap
BTW In Mapsource 6.16 Garmin has improved the map projection compared to v 6.15 (those versions were indeed awful)
This has been suggested a few times before and I plan to introduce this in the next version of the website (which will take some time).
This is also planned for the next version, that will use the style file from this topic.
Btw, I’ve implemented Ligfietser’s suggestion (without the last two lines) so I hope the flooding in some places and the missing highway problem is solved in the next map update that is running now (due within 2 days I hope).
Drat. The new map version is live and parts of Sidney are still flooded, despite that pre-processing has been eliminated (so Mkgmap should have all the data available).
Perhaps it’s an artifact of the splitting boundaries? I don’t know.
Just had a look and it seems that maps are now being constructed from older OSM data (29/10/2011) than recently when 5/11/2011 data was used.
Aargh!! You are right, I distributed the wrong map version. Can I blame not having had coffee yet?
The latest map version (19-11-2011) has now been distributed between the servers. And guess what… no more flooding in Sidney 
Thanks for noticing the problem!
Lambertus - you can blame whatever you like. The work you and others do on this project for the rest of us to use is much appreciated by me and I’m sure very many others.
Thanks 32110. Enjoy!
Hi Lambertus,
User error. I had inadvertently turned off all but the base layer. 
would have deleted the post but not an option. I use your map output often and it is very much appreciated.
Cheers,*
So we now have half a page full with user errors 
Glad you worked it out though.
Hello and thanks again for a great service. I have been travelling in South America for the past few months and I keep updating/adding ways/POIs to OSM - it´s great to know that every month or so I can download the latest map of the country I am in and I will have the latest and greatest! Helps contributors get a valuable sense of progress.
I travel by bicycle and the two things that would be great to have (for my Garmin device) are:
- Contour lines (a-la opencyclemap.org)
- Different rendering for paved vs unpaved roads. An example of this is http://osm.org/go/MI~egFpOm- which is tagged as paved to the west of the intersection and unpaved to the east, but is rendered as exactly the same on both sides. Is it possible to render these differently on the GPS to make it obvious which ways are unpaved?
Cheers
Alex
I’m not sure about contour lines, but paved vs unpaved roads would be no problem to render. If and when my Openfietsmap will be rendered world wide (Lambertus?) you would see those unpaved roads as track road.
Working on the scripts as I write this…
Contours will be a problem unless there becomes a third server I think. Worldwide contours take a lot of space. A lot!
How much is a lot? If whole Europe is 1,1 gb (Computer Teddy’s website) and Europe is 7% of the worlds landmass, I would guess 15 gb is needed for the whole world? Of course you dont want to put the contours in all your country maps, but maybe a separate mapset of contours only?