Hi Lamerturs,
many thanks für your routable osm-maps for garmin-devices. I am very pleased! It seems to me that the dataset comes without any typefile. I tried to implement some different typfiles using IMG2MS or MapsetToolKit. But always the whole mapsource-Database was corrupted und I had to remove the choosen typfiles to make it workable again.
How can a suitable typefile implemented and/or can I find such suitable typefile?
Best regards
In the Consumentengids of May 2009 I found a letter to the editor (translated):
Your article about GPS in the March edition doesn’t mention the free map of the Netherlands for bikes and cars on http://garmin.na1400.info/index.html. This map is based upon OpenStreetMap. After a bit of searching, you can find maps of the United States and countries in Western Europe. This initiative is growing rapidly and the maps are updated weekly.
More publicity! 
I don’t know how to install a TYP file after the gmapsupp.img has been created, however I do know that the TYP file must have the same id (Family, Product, Series?) as the map it comes with.
I’m working on an updated website where you can select a predefined TYP file (and maybe even upload your own TYP) to be included with the combined maps.
Cool, is that a reader comment printed in the Consumentengids as a reaction on an earlier edition or an online comment?
BTW, for foreign readers, the Consumentengids is a monthly (?) glossy from the consumer interest organisation in the Netherlands. It contains product reviews, comparative tests, articles about specific laws etc.
I am a relatively new gps user but I ran across your service and think it is great. I use the North America maps and have found your site the only one that provides open source routable maps for North America. I have access to a server with significant bandwidth and may be able set up a mirror site. I would be particularly interested in hosting an area file for all of North America. Would you be at all interested in setting something up?
Thank you for your offer. There are some technical things we need to discuss before you and I say: let’s go for it. I think it’s best to work this out via private email so you’ll be hearing from me.
“I’m really sorry I had to do this but there are simply too many people who are apparently going on a journey around the world.”
Hi Lambertus!
In fact, I AM starting a round the world journey in 4 weeks, so I would have to request a lot of tiles. Should I do this in small bites or would you prefer I shove off from your server entirely? I’m concerned that even if I request a lot of small sections (and put them together with one of the Map Tool apps) it will still cause you server problems.
What is your advice?
Thanks!
I don’t mind if you request more than one combined map from the server. You can also just download the tiles from the server without performing a combine request. Just downloading does not stress the server.
One way of doing is this is to select all the tiles that you need for your journey and copy the list of tilenumbers into a text editor. Examine the url of one of those tiles and copy it in front of the list of tilenumbers. Then batch download the tiles using a tool like wget.
Example of tile list:
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/16-04-2009/63240001.img
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/16-04-2009/63240002.img
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/16-04-2009/63240003.img
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/16-04-2009/63240004.img
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/16-04-2009/63240005.img
etc
Hi - I’m brand new to owning a Garmin GPS and discovered the freely available maps on OpenStreetMap and your site - THANKS!!!
Unfortunately, I’m having a little problem. I select a set of tiles in Canada (Eastern Ontario), just north of the Great Lakes. But when I run the .exe file to install the mapset on my PC, all I see in Mapsource are a set of Points of Interest. A couple of times I’ve seens some roads that are in the US (Just south of the lakes), but nothing from Canada - And nothing in the way of shores, rivers, etc.
Has anyone else seen this, or am I just simply not doing something right. I’m running the latest version of MapSource from Garmin’s site.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Is there data available on the map on this site for the area that you’re interested in?
The Garmin maps are based upon OpenStreetMap data and our coverage is not everywhere as good as we would like (but you can help us gaining that coverage ofcourse!).
Yes. I can see all the roads in the Ottawa area on openstreetmaps.com. But they don’t show up in mapsource, when I run the downloaded routable .exe file.
Sorry - typed the URL in the previous message incorrectly. Sholuld have been openstreetmap.org (the link you provided). The streets do also show up on the map where I select the tiles.
Hi,
First of all thanks for the service. Seriously appreciated. I use the maps here in Korea to add more to OSM whenever I go out riding. So …
I was wondering if there were any chance you could add the --name-tag-list=name:en to your command line or at least make it a checkable option, if possible? Having a Garmin that doesn’t support Asian characters makes for a lot of confusion (???) on place and street names.
And while on the subject of command line options, the --add-pois-to-areas would also be very useful for making schools, parks and other buildings searchable.
I am not sure how your scripting works, and my coding days are rather far behind me, but perhaps you could set up a page where the user could check off a number of command line options that would then be passed through when building with mkgmap .
I know you have your own plans and are already working hard on this. I am just thinking out loud.
I do try and make my own maps now and then, but the process seems to be a bit hit and miss for me at the moment.
Again, thanks a lot. Have a great day.
Robert
Right, then there is something wrong with the build process for that area. I’ll look at it.
Yes, there are lots of problems in that area (code pages and such). I’m working on a new version where you can set all kinds of parameters if you want to. Be patient though, it’s impacting everything ofcourse so it requires some time.
Good idea, I’ll add that to the list as well.
That’s what I’m working at currently.
Yes, I’ve had my share of misses too 
Great to hear it. I’ll be looking forward to it and will try to be patient. 
Have a great day.
Robert
Hello,
Preliminarily I installed several tiles on my gpsmap 60csx and on Mapsource.
The version on the 60csx I combined with a typfile as provided for the complete Germany routable map of OSM.
On both versions (device / MS) I now have the same problem:
When zooming out beyond a scale of 3 km the OSM-roads disappear. The principal roads may dissapear partially and disappear completely with the next step (5 km)
The roads of the basemap remain visible.
Beyond a scale of 5 km the map looks quite useless:
The OSM-roads are disappeared, while the rivers and the private/public boundaries remained visible. As I understood, the problem relies to the levels attached to the various elements, but I cannot identify whether this is a problem of the OSM-data or the generation of the map.
Best regards,
Gibuld
I tried downloading two sets of tiles. When I installed the second, the first one was removed from Mapsource (same product code I guess).
Is there an easy way to add tiles from a second download to one that was gotten earlier?
Is there still an option to get a (cached) ‘all tiles’ download?
Exactly. I’m working on allowing you to define your own map parameters like product codes.
There are several options to generate an overview map and TDB file (which are needed for MapSource) using existing tiles. One is using Mkgmap another is MapSetToolkit.
No, not at the moment and I’m not sure I will add such an option again at all.
First off - Lambertus, what a fantastic resource, thank you.
I’m probably being another numpty here ! - so apologies in advance.
I selected & downloaded tiles for all of UK - and opened them up in Mapsource, - all visible. I even managed to use the routing feature on a trial route between 2 waypoints I created. 
But my “find places” is greyed out when the OSM Routable Map is open in Mapsource.
With PC basemap “find places” is OK but of course that is not routable.
Then I tried the option to show “OSM Map” - find places is OK, and it seems I can create a waypoint in there (that I could later use in OSM Routable),
BUT the problem is that not all the area is shown in this version. Although all of the UK is shown in routable - in the OSM Map it only shows a small portion of the South West of the UK - not even a whole tile. On the Select tiles page of the web site that tile should also have a corner of Spain - right?
What did I do wrong?
I guess you did nothing wrong here. You’re looking at limitations of the map building process which includes the not fully working address search. I expect the software to become better at it in time but it requires more knowledge of the Garmin image format.
What is the option to show “OSM map”? I cannot find it in MapSource. Can you elaborate?
The tile that is not being shown… is that 63240046.img? I’ve looked at that tile and it seems ok to me… Can you post the download url please?
Hi Lambertus
Thank you for your quick reply - Can I send you direct e-mail with screen dumps to show better what I mean (I couldn’t figure how to do that directly in Forum post) ?