I noticed the map shown here → http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php has a date “Based on OpenStreetMap data from: 28-05-2009”.
This is not correct as it shows items aded after that date.
The downloaded files do seem to reflect that date, as the downloaded map is not updated.
How often is your server updated with the latest open Openstreetmap?
Any chance you can update the downloaded maps?
Chris
The map as shown on the website is the live map from OSM which is very up to date. The Garmin maps however are updates mostly once a week and the current version is based upon the planet dump from June 28th. Next update is scheduled in two weeks. I have no time to commence one earlier.
Hi there,
I really appreciate the maps, Lambertus–they’ve been very easy to use, and very accurate.
I’ve been trying to get a combined gmapsupp.img file created for Iowa & Wisconsin, but for some reason whenever I include both states, the tiles representing Wisconsin and the NE corner of Iowa end up blank. In particular, the tiles that appear blank (only when requested with tiles from Western Iowa) are 73240226, 73240228, 73240229, 73240230, 73240232, 73240233, 73240234, 73240235. Geographically, it is the tiles that represent the regions containing the cities of Minneapolis and Chicago that won’t appear when combined with other tiles.
I live and bicycle in SW Wisconsin (and surrounding areas), so I’d really like to be able to get a single map for my device that represents Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois.
Thanks again for this wonderful service, and thanks in advance for any help on this issue.
Hello Lambertus,
I 've seen that there are some red tiles (one in France some in Denmark) meaning that they are not available. Do you have an idea of of long it can be until it is fully available again?
I’ve updated the start post to contain the answers to these questions. I’m trying to get my new house ready for moving over, so all my OSM projects are on halt during this period.
good luck with the move…
I noticed that you have problems regarding the disk space. Isn’t it a good idea then to let the user choose when entering the e-mail address, which map format they want (MapSource, gmapsupp.img or RoadMap) so that only one map generation process is needed? I think most people only download one of the map formats…
This could be done for example by deleting the e-mail address input box at the home page, and creating a new page on which you can fill out your e-mail, and the map format you want. On the home page, there should be a Submit-button, which leads you to this new page.
Yes, stuff like this is on the todo list, together with configurable product id’s (so you can have more than one of my maps in MapSource) etc. There are also people offering disk space hosting but all those things require time which I don’t have at the moment.
Hi,
i am not sure but i am afraid “it is not a bug, it is a feature”:
I travel frequently and using your service i generated and downloaded map of my part of world (mid and northern Germany) and now as a preparation to my vacation trip, i generated and dowloaded a map of France and Spain, installed - and surprise: my previous mapset has diappeared!
It is really so that everytime i download and install maps from this server (even in different directory) only the newest will be available?
I have 2GB card in my Legend HCx - so there are no problems with having map of whole EU on it… But…
Or am i wrong?
Regards
GJ
Well, downloading and installing a new map from this service will not actually overwrite the old map but the map overview files (.tdb and xxxx0001.img) are overwritten. These two files contain the information for MapSource about the installed map tiles. So you won’t see the map tiles in MapSource even though all the tiles are still available. You can fix this in two ways: Donwload a map containing mid/north germany, france and spain or generate an overview map containing all the installed tiles yourself.
In the future I aim to allow anyone to specify unique product-id’s for their combined map which would be automatically recognised as a new map by MapSource.
Yesterday, the maps (http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php) were shown as being updated (17-06-2009) and today the date is back to 28-05-2009.
Did the update finish and the date is incorrect or did the update stop/not finish?
–
Chris
p.s.
Thanks!
Update failed and I performed a fallback to the previous version. New update is running in the background now.
hi there
when the update will be completed
When it’s done 
Seriously, I expect it to be done late tomorrow.
thanks Lambertus for all your work
Today I succeeded: I had a large chunk of Europe download from Lambertus his site (did that 2 mounths ago) and I added high-lines to it for the area where I will be going to on holiday. I created first a gmapsupp.img with hight-lines only and a transparent background and I added that with the ‘old’ routable Europe chunk I had. It all works now in the device. I have now a map that is routable and has hight-lines as well:).
Lambertus,
This site is great. Thanks so much.
It’s particularly valuable for North American users, as I believe it’s the only place to download a routable OSM map, short of assembling tiles myself. I hope North America will be included again in the future.
I’m new to the server and put in my request nearly a week ago now. The server did respond it would send a link when ready. So far no response. What’s the usual response time. Should I just put in the map again? It was only one US state.
Based on my experience, it has been matter of couple hours at worst cases…
Great work! Unfortunately there seems to be an error when processing the .img files in some parts of Canada when selected as tiles from the website. File 73240261, for instance, is blank and only 300KB (and it’s a big tile) that should have lots of data. The maps are installing fine in MapSource, but about half of Canada is shown as blank tiles. I haven’t tried any other parts of the world, just Canada.