Yes, originally the idea was to replace the ‘old’ generic routable with the ‘new’ but I’m not sure anymore. Alternatively ‘old’ is transformed into a lite version for Garmin devices with little storage (e.g. some Etrex series).
Is there anything specific you don’t like? By specifying the maintainer(s) of the styles can possibly improve them…
For predefined country maps this should be possible and is actually a long standing wish. It only needs my time to implement which is on short supply lately. Regarding custom maps things get much more difficult. For starters: the custom map build program doesn’t know what area has been chosen or how to name it. Another long standing wish is to allow the user to provide his preferred product id, description etc. but A) it makes the process for inexperienced users much more difficult B) requires a large time investment which -as said- I currently don’t have.
As an aside: I recently created a GitHub account so I can upload this forum but could use the same account to manage/share/cooperate the http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl code as well.
Is this really important information? You’d probably know if a map is old or new anyway…
Thanks for the compliments. The other two main contributors are Ligfietser + Beddhist (Mkgmap commandline and styles) and aditionally Oxilion.nl + Harenber (servers) and Greencaps (some special utilities for transliteration and country/tile matching).
Thanks Lambertus, I’ve send you a more extended version also by mail.
French and Arabic names seem solved too in the last update.
And last but not least, the routing has got a major improvement (esp. for newer GPS devices and Basecamp users) since mkgmap-r3116, thanks to the mkgmap development team.
BTW, I’ve downloaded the address file (1.6 GB). It contains a lot of zip files and these contain mostly shape files. I suspect it wont be straightforward to get them in the Garmin maps…
Are you sure about the licenses of the data? imho this is a general OSM problem that should be discussed internationally hot/if we should use this data to best serve all OSM-related projects. After all youre asking for volunteers…
Hi all, I’m new to this. http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ but found I was unable to enter required details for country etc. is the site still working or are maps just being updated please
The OpenLayers server which hosts the JavaScript functions to show the map is not responding which breaks the website. I’m trying to implement a workaround for this problem, but…
I couldn’t login on the garmin.openstreetmap.nl webserver so I couldn’t apply the fix.
Luckily the problem has been fixed. Thanks everyone who reported the problem (on this forum and by email).
Thanks for reporting.
Lambertus has now implemented the country names into the mapsets, which was requested in this topic.
Next step will be more complicated, to make it possible to install several mapsets.
In the meantime of this process, users might have difficulties with installation because the installer might not recognize a previously installed mapset because of those name changes.
I strongly recommend to check the installation with tools like Javawa GMTK or Mapset Toolkit.
Do you have any idea what happens if I prerender the tiles with a different family id compared with how they are combined to each country? Currently I render each tile only once and use some of these tiles for multiple countries. It would mean a lot of work for me if the tiles need to be rendered with the same family id as the country it’s going to be used with.
I currently don’t have plans to give custom maps unique numbers, but I can imagine that one day the user will be able to choose his own family id for the custom maps.
Hi, have used OSM previously (superb product and service) but new to the forum, trying to obtain routable bicycle map of Cyprus for my Garmin 800. Tried yesterday and again today but ‘loading data’ is continually showing for choosing a predefined country. Reading previous posts it seems there is a problem, any ideas when this might be sorted? Thank you.
This is fixed much earlier today. If you’re still having this problem then try cleaning your browser cache (e.g. key combo: CTRL-F5 or use the option from the settings/history menu).
Dont worry, that wouldn’t make any difference, so you can still render them with one ID and give each country mapset another FID. The family IDs are stored in the index files, not in the tiles.
There might be a problem, if you put two overlapping country mapsets with duplicate tile img on your GPS. But maybe this was already an issue.
Im not sure if this is necessary and if there are issues at all, lets first see if it works. If I put two neighbouring and overlapping country mapsets on my GPS I dont see any problem (and I havent heard anyone complaining too).
I only know there was an issue with my OFM maps, when you put two identical mapsets of different version dates on your GPS, the map becomes invisible. Maybe it is caused by an index problem?
is the site still working or are maps just being updated please