The tile limitations are limited because of two reasons:
The first limit is 2GB for the Windows installer.
Between 2GB-4Gb there is no windows installer, but you will still get the gps version.
So it needs roughly 4x a custom map generation to grab the whole world, for free.
Of course you can show your appreciation afterwards with the donate button on the website 
Sojo,
I know that during the Haiti crisis Geofabrik created a new map for the island every 5 minutes and that these maps were used by aid workers on the ground who got regularly new updates while being there. This is ofcourse something different then having a pre-installed map, ready to go, which is what -it seems- you are looking for.
The is not a global map provided because, as was said earlier, it got abused and people wasted valuable bandwidth and other resources. But if you’re looking for a basic map that is only updated e.g. 4x a year (just for basic coverage) then I think we could make provisions for that.
Let’s try and see what’s possible and needed.
Do you need routable maps?
Do you need altitude profiles?
Do you need landuses or only (rail-)ways?
Do you need oceans shown in the maps?
I’m curious what organisation you work for. If you don’t want to share this, then you can also contact me privately: osm at na1400 dot info
Yes we did (and still do) work with this map in Haiti.
And we’re just about to go to Serbia and Bosnia. Again with OSM maps.
Exactly. A general map to replace the useless Garmin World Map when handing out GPS devices - as detailed as it gets considerung the space limitations.
Do you need routable maps? → 7
Do you need altitude profiles? → 3
Do you need landuses? → 6
Do you need (rail-) ways? → 10
Do you need oceans shown in the maps? → 5 | coast lines for orientation purposes only
1 = not necessary / 10 = indespensable
Swiss Humanitarian Aid
I don’t have any experience in these matters. Can you tell me how much time it takes you to build such a map and if there is a way to get it automatically done with your service or I’d have to get you involved every time there needs to be an update? I’m happy to talk about this in private (simon dot joss at eda dot admin dot ch). If you’re telling me that there is a way to do this with little administrational effort I’d like to discuss that in our organization and get the approval so I’ll be able to do a donation as well.
Win
Win
Sojo, why don’t you try it yourself by using the manual tile selection. To grab the whole world you need to divide it in 6 parts.
N+S America, Africa, Europe (N and South?) Asia+Oceania. Then download the gmapsupp.img versions and rename them. They all fit on a 16 GB card that can be read on your Garmin 62 device.
See for an excellent tutorial http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/download-garmin-705800810.html
I’m happy to do so. Just wanted to know if there was an easier way.
Thanks for your support!
A question on the colour contrast b/n the green of national parks and blue of rivers/creeks.
Downloading using the ‘new styles’, I am finding it’s very difficult to differentiate the river/creeks when they are over a green background of national parks e.g. Nattai River in Nattai NP (34S34° 17’ 19.9" E150° 20’ 48.1"). Is there a way to overcome it? Thanks.
You can try to edit the typ file with typviewer and copy paste the following code
on line type 0x18 (streams)
[_line]
Type=0x18
UseOrientation=Y
LineWidth=1
BorderWidth=1
Xpm="0 0 4 0"
"1 c #7BCAD5"
"2 c #DDF1F4"
"3 c #00008B"
"4 c #DDF1F4"
String1=0x04,stream
String2=0x03,beek,sloot
String3=0x02,Bach
ExtendedLabels=Y
FontStyle=SmallFont
CustomColor=Day
DaycustomColor:#0000B4
[end]
This gives a lighter border to the line type, but the results are not good when a waterway inside a water polygon is drawn:
See the preview section at https://www.dropbox.com/s/17uw0dp69g0qve9/water.jpg
Wow. Thanks! I’ll see if I can get a Windows machine to try this.
routing around Boston Massachusetts gave me a remarkable result.
A bunch of ppl have been busy trying to get a bicycle route up and have partially succeeded, northern strand community trail.
http://www.biketothesea.com/
On osm.org the trail has been drawn and access is allowed for foot and bicycle.
However basecamp with a just freshly generated map refuses to route over the trail, not with any of the walking or bicycle options.
spot where I tried to route
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.43040/-71.04287
Those bunch of ppl should have done their homework better. This bike trail is dead ending at a railway.
No wonder Basecamp refuses to ride there
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/227602980#map=18/42.43237/-71.02531
Maybe a situation like this?
it is an old train track and i did say partially succeeded
Still I think there is no setting on osm.org that would make basecamp not route over that trail, yet it does not… scratch that I think I just found the issue, there are no nodes on the intersection:rolleyes:
The custom queue seems to be stuck, it’s at 795 requests, and 3.3 day delay. Anything we can do to help?
not stuck…
Country Custom
Queue length: 0 819 request(s)
Request delay: ~6 minutes ~3.4 days
just a lot of request
Well, the reported waits are not always accurate, unless I don’t understand how to interpret the information. I requested a “custom” map of Alaska the other day and it was ready in a few minutes despite the fact that the wait specified on the website was about 3 days. A while ago I made a similar request and had to wait a couple of days for it.
What do those numbers mean? Is it true that a request for a “Country” has a shorter wait than for a state?
“US state” = “Country”. If you select a state and don’t change any tile selections, it will run in the country queue and will normally be quite fast. If you change the tile selection from what is automatically selected to cover the state, it runs in the custom queue.
The delay times are based on an estimate of 6 minutes/map. The last time I watched my request move through the queue, it was taking 2 minutes/map so you could divide the estimate by 3 now to get the “real” delay.
I just downloaded the latest map for Denmark (Generic Routable New Style), and noticed, that paths around where I live are now only rendered as ‘line’ (barely visible, and only gives the text ‘line’ when I mark it on my GPS).
Some other tracks are rendered just fine as tracks…
I really can’t see why one type is rendered while another one isn’t… the paths that are rendered fine are tagged as highway=foot and foot=designated or highway=path or just highway=path - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/146487806 (connects to another cycletrack that isn’t rendered)
A track that isn’t rendered correctly is tagged like this: highway=path, foot=designated, bicycle=desgnated, foot=designated - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/127223911
Another track that isn’t rendered correctly: highway=cyckletrack, foot=yes - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/195057632
As I understand it ‘designated’ basically means the same as yes… but what I don’t understand at all is why the cycletrack and the tracks with foot/bicycle=designated aren’t rendered correctly.
Will try out the old style now, but I am pretty sure it works fine there (… or at least it used to - given that I can’t remember which style I used when I could see the local paths).
Oh yeah - the area I am looking at is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/55.91618/12.49536 - and yes, I am aware, that for a proper bicycle map, I should choose another style, but ‘it used to work’ and some tracks are shown fine.
Cheers and thanks for the good work!
/rené
EDIT: Quick update, I just grabbed the ‘old style’ DK-map and here the troublesome paths are rendered as ‘ally’ and the trails that were rendered correctly before are still rendered as ‘trail’. They can be navigated to when selecting bicycle in routing options… (… and ehr… when using car navgation too, which has caused confusion to some users…)
Thanks for reporting René. The reason is that the typ file isn’t processed in all maps.
I’ll ask Lambertus what went wrong there.
Multple osm country map download on sd card
but only one visible(first)
(every map renamed)
(http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl) (predefinded map)
Garmin map(multiple) all visible
in etrex20, that is normal
I’m not sure what you mean ark.
Please install Javawa’s Device Manager and check the maps on your GPS for errors: http://www.javawa.nl/jdm_en.html