Contour lines should be an option. They might be clutter on GPS units with small screens, like the Edge 800.
I just created a Garmin map for the United States (except for Alaska and Hawaii). I didn’t realized I was doing something that was slow and consumed a lot of resources. At least the map will be used by multiple cyclists, because I created two new microSD cards, and will update my own.
The process is time consuming, because I can only select one state in the United States, and then I have to add tiles for 47 more states. Sometimes, I have to zoom in, because certain tiles are quite tiny, or zoom out, to see if I am finished adding tiles. It would be better (for me, the user) if I could select the entire country, or select multiple states from the list. Selecting multiple states would siplify creating regional maps. I know people who live in the eastern US often do multi-state bike rides, for example.
Maybe as a new user I am not aware of all aspects of this service. My original idea was to create a map that would be a replacement for Garmin’s expensive maps.
You could enable manual tile selection to select the whole country…
I am interested in downloading Egypt map for my Garmin Nuvi2595
I tried to download it to my device but it could not see it or make any difference to the device so I removed it from its internal memory.
PLEASE HELP
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
Bob
Did you put it in a garmin folder?
OK, I went back and skipped selecting a state, then just did a drag using my mouse to select most of the USA. Then I just had to do a little refinement around the edges. This is indeed a much faster method. Thanks!
Report: Missing label for lakes and water features - Wall of Jerusalem NP (TAS, Aust)
Just been looking around on the mapset I downloaded from 15 April 2014 and note that the various lakes in the Wall of Jerusalem NP were without their name labels on default display. But they do show up when the cursor is clicked on top of them when used within BaseCamp (Mac). I note from OSM’s main site they were all properly labelled by default.
Is this a normal behaviour? Thanks.
I suppose you use the new styles map, where the labels are invisible by default.
In the NL’ds this cluttered the maps because there are a lot tiny polygons with water and name=*.
Example here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/52.2476/5.3928 (Rengerswetering).
A solution would be that I can use a different poly type (0x3f) with an invisible label for those tiny water polygons, and give all other water polygons a visible label.
A temporary workaround is that you can edit the typ file and make the label visible (Polygon Type=0x3c).
Got it! These lakes in the Wall of Jerusalem are of decent size. I think it would be worth showing their names by default. A size criteria would make a lot of sense. Thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion Ciprol, I see it can also improve my cycle maps as well (too many labels of small waters).
The area_size() function was implemented not too long ago by mkmap so I will add it to the lakes.
Again, appreciate your effort on all of these! 
The routing on a oregon 300 works again, even better then expected 
This is on a map that was generated on the 6th of may.
Even with shortest distance it does not give a calculation error on a route from Rotterdam to Wuppertal. :P:cool:
The highway ramps are also much better again
Something weird happens in Rotterdam though.
If arriving from kralingen/the west on the Jacques Dutilhweg and want to enter the highway to the brienenoordbrug it does a weird detour on the service road if you use shortest distance. This happens both on my gps and basecamp, I checked on osm.org and there is no reason, I think, that it should do that.
Using fastest route there is no detour.
May I report one more problem? The East side of Sydney Harbour (Aust) is showing up as white rather than blue in Garmin’s BaseCamp (Mac) and on Garmin Oregon 650. This is from a download today. I recall there was a similar issue affecting the western side of Sydney Harbour but that was resolved. It was working normally for quite a while and then suddenly this happened, but on the East side. Thanks for reviewing it.
@Mafketel: good to know the routing works better, but sometimes there are strange things happening, dont know what the reasons are.
@ciprol: might be caused by a broken polygon, I cant find any errors on JOSM, maybe it has been fixed already.
hello
I have a problem to download the russian federation
zip file is only 174 b and not 941 Mb
thanks
I think something went wrong with the map generation (Lambertus?).
Maybe you can choose a manual tile selection and request a new custom map?
Lambertus, first of all, thank you for this great service. I use it from time to time, when I need a map of a small region which I cannot find already prepared somewhere else. It almost only took a few hours to get that map but now I am shocked: over 480 requests and a waiting time of about 2 days? Is every request a manual one or perhaps somebody performed requests using a bot?
Perfectly understandable. Just think about the proliferation of GPS units out there. Even just with Garmin cycling computers and the number of them downloading routable cycling maps, there’d be thousands and thousands.
No bots, requests are handled automatically, the queue length is a function of popularity and lack of cpu resources. If you can’t wait: download a whole country is a good idea. Bandwidth is not the limiting factor.
Just fyi, there is an idea to speedup custom map generation by a factor of about 200%. I need time to implement it, but I’m working on contours too at the moment.
I am really amazed by this service…
The only downpoint is that it is not possible to download a map of the whole world. I understand that it is just not justifiable to waste server resources and bandwidth for such a request so someone doesn’t have to update his/her maps before going on holidays. However, when working in worldwide emergency services with a response time of 5-10 hours (which includes digging for the grab bag, having the last shower for a week and getting to the airport) there is no time - not a minute - to download and install maps of the affected area to the GPS device. Is there any solution to get a worldwide map? Even if it was only updated once a year it would still be much more useful than the Garmin Basemap.
So far we are using maps of individual countries/regions from various sources. But keeping this updated for 193 countries and then getting the right map onto numerous GPS devices on time before departure is almost impossible. So I am trying to find an alternative solution. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.