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CycleMap:

http://code.google.com/p/osmand/source/browse/DataExtractionOSM/src/net/osmand/map/TileSourceManager.java

OpenCycleMap:

http://code.google.com/p/osmand/source/browse/config/site/tile_sources.xml

I updated to OsmAnd 0.8, and I must say that it is a huge improvement over the previous version. My biggest complaint is that I would have preferred to compile maps myself, but I was unable to find a compatible OsmAndMapCreator. So, I downloaded the precompiled offline vector map (basemap and two country maps), which work fine. Offline bicycle routing still does not work well in urban areas, but it is inherently much more difficult than car routing. At least the recalculation will not freeze the whole software, as it would do in the Garmin Edge 705. I will not miss the Garmin much. Good job!

Isn’t there mapcreator in nightly builds?
If you used that one, and it doesn’t work, you can try setting up Jenkins but it’s overkill.

OsmAndMapCreator compatible with market version (0.8):
http://download.osmand.net/latest-night-build/OsmAndMapCreator-marketcompatible.zip

OsmAndMapCreator compatible with development version (0.8):
http://download.osmand.net/latest-night-build/OsmAndMapCreator-development.zip

Currently, both OsmAndMapCreator versions (development and market) are compatible with all 0.8 versions.

Thanks, I was looking from the wrong place (Google code).
I have been part of the mkgmap community, but I am seriously considering to change direction. I have been building a map of Finland in Garmin format, correcting or suppressing all errors that mkgmap is reporting (mainly, oneways to/from nowhere without fixme=* at one of the end nodes, broken coastline or multipolygons, broken turn restriction relations).

This is a very good application. Thanks a lot to the developpers!

How can we update the vector maps?

Osmand releases new versions of maps every now and then. If you go to Settings>offline data> you can check if there is a new version. (make sure you have internet connection) If the mapname is blue there is. you then push the download button. If it’s green you have the latest version

Thank you very much!

I just tried invoking OsmAndMapCreator, downloaded a couple of weeks ago.

The splitter+mkgmap takes only a couple of minutes on my quad-core laptop. The OsmAndMapCreator seems to take at least one hour. Is there some work in progress to make the compilation faster? Also, is there a non-GUI front-end that simply takes the finland.osm.pbf that I downloaded from Geofabrik?

The OsmAndMapCreator process seems to be I/O bound. I assume that even during the rare periods when the hard disk LED is turned off, the program is only using one CPU core.

I am not a programmer, but quite familiar with Osmand and the related elements that have to be processed by MapCreator.

The main developers Victor and Pavol are very busy with improving Osmand at all, but I would like to ask them:

Does it make sense to run Mapcreator wit a profiler program like Valgrind or others to see where it can be speeded up?

This question would be better placed at Osmand’s googlegroups forum.

Stephan

Hi folks, using Osmand on HTC Explorer with the maps from the osmand server.

I’m in Wellington, New Zealand. Have been trying out directions for the last couple of days and really impressed !

The OSM data is pretty good for this region as far as street names is concerned, but very little data in house numbers. I found some examples in Auckland, and checked to see that the address search finds them.

My question is about Transportation search.

For Transportation, I just get some text “Transportation results (5.81 km to target)”. Not able to click on the “Find more” button, it is disabled. How do I get this to work ?

The POI search works ok, just very little data in the Wellington Region… Guess I am going to have to get cracking on updating OSM :slight_smile:

Hi,
what does the double-slash (“//”) in line 47 mean in the default render rules ?
http://code.google.com/p/osmand/source/browse/DataExtractionOSM/src/net/osmand/render/default.render.xml
Chris

I was using osmandmapcreator with bash script to run it in cli with no gui. It works much faster
Later I wanted to upload maps to osmand server but there were some upload problems.
After that they created jenkins setup which allows me to upload it automatically over ssh.
Now i do it over jenkins.

http://code.google.com/p/osmand/wiki/OsmandMapUpdates

Did anyone heard if OsmAnd is gona include admin levels to search inside city boundaries?
Until know seems to use only the node with the tag place, right?

I managed to do that as well, but it was still taking something like an hour for Finland, using only one CPU core.
splitter+mkgmap does that in maybe 5 or 10 minutes on 4 cores in parallel.
I got the (possibly wrong) impression that OsmAndMapCreator is using sqlite for temporary storage. mkgmap is using main memory data structures, which is fine if the map is split into tiles (whose maximum size is dictated by the Garmin format).

Is OsmAndMapCreator creating a reduced map for higher zoom levels? Is there a high-level description of the OsmAnd vector map format somewhere?

Yes.

No.

https://code.google.com/p/osmand/wiki/MapAddressDataStructure

Yes.

No, only source code.

Could anyone here explain what ‘Time to go’ means? Thanks!

Remaining/elapsed journey time (routing).
Tap on the widget to toggle between remaining and elapsed journey time.

Thanks, Mondschein, much appreciated.