Garmin maps (for the Netherlands)

OK, I changed the language settings to English - but no changes in the character display, still question marks. By the way, the map name in the map-info menu is even displayed with wrong characters.

In the meantime I tried some maps from Computerteddy and there the labels are displayed correctly. Maybe it has something to do with the character coding/code page in the map itself?

Really strange, I don’t use any special settings for language etc, just the defaults. I’ll ask ComputerTeddy if he uses any special settings.

Can you try the ‘NL maptiles for OSX’ version from http://garmin.na1400.info? They’re based on the planet dump from last wednesday. I would like to know if they work…

Wel, I was able to load the maptiles onto my mac using mapmanager, but they crashed both bobcat and the mapinstaller.

The set seemd not to be complete, sort of stopped at about Apeldoorn at the east side of the map, but I can’t see if that was just a mistake from your side or a problem :wink:

HI, well, yes, that is currently about my problem, I don’t have Windows anywhere. It would be nice to be able to build the maps without the use of the Garmin MapConverter.

question,

if there is a new version of the Garmin maps on the website, does that automatically mean that there are new data. previously, I downloaded version 13-3-2007, now I have downloade 28-3-2007, but some changes I made are not visible and download sizes are the same up to the kb.

  1. can I have done something wrong with loading in Mapsource and on my Garmin?
  2. are there changes?

A new version of the Garmin map uses a new version of the planet file from OpenStreetMap.org. This means that under normal circumstances any data entered in the past week should show up on the new map.

However, it appears there have been some hickups in the planet dump generation in the past two weeks or so. This might have caused the identical filesize and the lack of new features.

Bedankt. Ik zag wel dat bij het uitpakken dezelfde datum van de versie verscheen. Ik heb daar geen aandacht aan besteed (zo iets van vergeten nieuwe naam te geven), maar het kan zijn dat de oude versie onder de installer staat.

sorry for non-Dutch speaking lot amongst you:
Thanks, I saw the same version date when I unzipped the file, but did not pay attention. Could that an old version is still in the installer

Sorry for the late response. You are right, the maps build successfully but used the same old data each time because of a bug in one of the scripts. It’s fixed now.

Hey everybody!

I’m trying to find a good map of Israel for my Garmin Quest, no luck so far…
I found this interesting source of information :

http://www.freemap.co.il/map/

I’m pretty new to the whole GPS thing but from what I see it looks a lot like OpenStreetMap format.
It also sais something about OpenLayer but I can’t really figure out what that is.

The piece of software for mapping that map is RoadMap, if any of you are familliar.

The map format is .rdm.

If any of you have any idea on how to convert those so I can use them with MapSource, please share!!!
Any bit of information will be highly appriciated!!! :wink:

Thanks in advance,
Arye.

My Hebrew could be better (which is an understatement) so I have no idea what that site is about. So here’s some general information.

The OpenStreetMap project has some data about Israel, which can be converted to Garmin maps. But it seems that the project could use some extra help in Israel.

RoadNav is a open source navigation application which the maintainer of the freemap.co.il site has adapted for his specific needs. The file format used by RoadNav is different from the native OSM format and Garmin formap. You won’t be able to exchange maps between them easily.

OpenLayers is a open source initiative to create a client side (browser) map tile viewer, much like Google Maps.

Hi all, hi Lambertus!

Thanks a lot for your support for the community!

Can it be that the nederlands cycle map for garmin x series (nl-cycle_gmapsupp.zip) is broken? It has just a size of 326kB.

Best Regards from Germany

rotbarsch

Yes, it is broken atm. We are working on a new version that also renders cycle network nodes but a lack of proper Perl knowledge and spare time caused the preprocess script to be broken for some time now. We have planned a ‘hacking party’ next Friday to hopefully fix this. So perhaps there’s a new version out next Saturday. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The cycle map problem has been fixed. It now also shows the nodes on cycle node networks.

just a question about routable maps…
is that still a money issue for that particular s/w? cGPSMapper
Note has anyone been about to create a routable map with OSM data ?
I know the author of cGPSMapper has a website you can copy map data that can be compiled , could that be used in the short term?

look at neighbour topic http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=666

thanks for I will cross post this to the person who is create the Australian IMG files to see if this is useful .

Hi,

Hi,
I have a problem with the maps from http://garmin.na1400.info/index.html

I just upgraded to mapsource 6.14.1 (july 18) and now I get an error message stating something’s wrong with the map installation.
Does anybody know what garmin changed in the registry stuff?
My topoNL maps (a commercial mapsource product) does work with the new mapsource version.
(Maybe a tip: to downgrade back to 6.13.7 I had to execute the installer twice. Only once leaves me without the mapsource executable!?)

Paul

Thanks for the report, I will look into this.

Regarding MapSource: I’ve read somewhere that you can keep multiple instances (versions) of MapSource on your system. It also seems that the latest MapSource release does improve rendering somewhat but that it is also much slower than previous versions, so you might not even want to upgrade anyway.

Goed bezug!!! Ik gebruik een GPSmap60Cx met jou garmin kaarten tijdens het mappen. Zo kan ik makkelijk zien wat al bestaat op de kaart en wat niet.