This is a problem on your side unfortunately. Clearing the browser cache might fix this or you may need to wait a bit longer for the site to load properly.
Yes, that is the normal behaviour, there is no option to select multiple predefined countries.
Yes, multiple things are loaded asynchronously after the initial opening of the website. It is wise to wait a little when you’re on a slow connection (or when the website is slow).
The last update is still running and appears to stuck in a loop for over a week. I’ve killed it. Will update to the latest Mkgmap and restart the map update.
Edit:
A bit of digging revealed that the long runtime is caused by an error in the style file:
Error in style: Error: Unknown filter 'not-contained'
Could not open style default
From looking at the Mkgmap commit history I guess this is fixed by using the latest Mkgmap version.
I’m pretty new to openstreetmap and use Qlandkarte and Qmapshack on Ubuntu. After I downloaded the tiles for South Korea and opened the map in Qlandkarte I did not know which img file is my basemap. I tried one by one but always only saw one tile of South Korea and the rest was blank. Only with the help of #qlandkarte I learnt that I have to use one of the ovm_*.img files** and then zoom in far enough**. Only at scale <=10km the other tiles would start showing up (see http://postimg.org/image/eziodmnr5/ how it initially looks).
The much more knowledgeable guys in #qlandkarte pointed out that the archive I downloaded is missing a basemap. I thought I share that with you. Is it possible to add a basemap easily? And maybe it helps other novice users of qlandkarte/garmin.openstreetmap.nl.
Here an excerpt of the conversation in #qlandkarte:
21:16] For me this is just a malformed map
[21:18] I wonder, because that site is well known, but probably they focus more on ready made gmapsupp
[21:18] The ready-made gmapsupp contains a valid basemap.
[21:21] http://osm.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de/garmin/generic/30-01-2015/b7726d353fe4b19c7e10c7b28bf91e7d/
[21:21] There’s a zip file with tiles
[21:23] ok, maybe someone should tell them, that a simple basemap is missing
[21:23] btw the basemap is not part of the gmapsup
[21:24] but your command creates a simple one from the bounding box
[21:33] usually it’s fine if the basemap contains the bounding box and a box for each tile
[21:33] these boxes are used to select tiles to be combined into a gmapsupp
[21:34] but since the new devices this is not done very often anymore
[21:35] thus a bounding box will do
Thanks for reporting Marty. There should be a basemap (23442000.img) inside of the osm_generic_tiles.zip but it is missing. Also the *_mdr.img is missing, so I’m afraid that something went wrong in the generating process. The mapsource exe version does contain those files, but I’m not sure if you can open this on your system.
Lambertus, can you check why the osm_generic_tiles.zip dont contain those basemap and index files anymore?
The commandline for the zip compilation was not complete (probably has been this way for a long time). Should be fixed now for any new country map that is being generated (not for all those already existing country maps!).
I bought a Garmin Edge Touring in California. I am able to download the cycle map for California and everything seems to work. But when I download the cycle map for France I don’t get any POIs and am having trouble even seeing the map. Can someone help me please?
Address search is not working at all with any maps from garmin.openstreetmap.nl on Garmin Nuvi 2595LMT.
With the same SD card / same map file plugged into a Garmin Nuvi 3790LMT the address search works normally (but the menus are totally different)
I raised this this issue on help.openstreetmap.org and one other person reported same issue with another model: Nuvi 2555LMT.
I tried with different maps, same thing. The map is displayed correctly but address search does not find anything, not even the city or country. For instance I have the map of Switzerland activated, I enter part of the street name, and the autocomplete proposes the correct full name of the street, but then it says it cannot find it. Then I start entering Switzerland in the “Look in…” field, it autocompletes “Switzerland” and then it says “Sorry, we could not find Switzerland”.
If I manually zoom on the map to the address I am looking for, I see it, I can put my finger and set the map location as a destination and it will take me there.
Obviously this is not something I want to do when driving on the highway.
I have the latest software updates, but it does not make a difference anyway.
The device works normally with the Garmin pre-loaded North America map.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Looks like a particular issue of this nuvi25xx, given the fact that the same SD card and map work on another nüvi.
I’m afraid Garmin won’t listen because they dont support 3rd party OSM map makers like the mkgmap generated maps.
You could try to check if there is a faulty map or another error on your device with Javawa Device manager.
Interesting, I don’t think there is a search problem for this model with maps generated by cgpsmapper, which we use here with NZOpenGPS. This makes me think there is a problem with the compiler.
Hi all, Nice work here! I have a question as a new user of OSM’s. I tried to enter my city/town which is “Plains Pa 18705” . Specifically my home address which is Maffett st. Plains Pa don’t come up and the only Maffett st that comes up is in Wilkes-Barre Pa which is my neighboring city. That’s 2 streets with the same name within 6 miles. Is there something I can do to help map this into a future version? Just curious to the process. I have started mapping some streets here in town with iD OpenStreetMap editor.
I have figured out that you are in the US and that Pa stands for Pennsylvania. (Many of us here are not in the US…)
I’m not sure what you entered your search strings into, but on the OSM page searching for “Plains” brings up your town as the 1st result. Entering “Plains Pa” mysteriously shows me Moffet St, Plains, PA. So, both are in the system. If you are searching in your GPS, do you enter a city first? Try searching for the street without entering a city.
If you have made additions to OSM in your are they won’t show up until the next map update cycle. The date of the last update is shown under the map on the web page.
Hi and Thanks Peter, When I search for Plains or Plains Township on my Gamin 1300 device I type Plains and as soon as i hit a “space” after the “s” in Plains, it shows 4 towns starting with Plains.
My process is :
press “where to”, press address, spell city, I enter Plains and put a space and get :
If I go to “where to/cities” It will find Plains Pa. As far as entering Maffett st first it only comes up with Maffett St Wilkes-Barre which is 6 miles away or so.
I tried to just add street and leave city blank and it only comes up with maffett st Wilkes-Barre Pa . Can someone add Plains or make the connection? On other GPS devices it is called Plains Township, Pa. I’m not sure of the process but Plains and Wilkes-Barre Pa are 2 different towns/cities and both have a Maffett st.
Your GPS cannot find this street in Plains because the administrative boundaries for Plains on OSM are incomplete or missing.
The map needs this data to assign Maffet street to the correct place. It can find it in Wilkes-Barre because here the administrative boundaries are mapped in OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/187994
So in order to improve the search function, the boundaries for Plains must be entered on OSM. Maybe all the boundaries are already there, but none is assigned to Plains as relation.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I found a couple videos on YouTube but nothing on adding or assigning existing boundaries. I’m not sure if ill figure this out but I’ll give it a go.
Thank you for your effort. This is an awesome tool for those of us that are not experts and need an easy way to get OMS maps in our Garmin devices.
I have been making some improvements to the Vietnam OSM maps lately, and I can´t wait to see how they are presented in my GPS.
When are you planning to make the next update of the map?
Hi! This service is wonderful! I have a question.
I downloaded the set of tiles for Oman in form of img file, I uploaded it successfully on my Garmin, and I can search street in the capital city - Muscat.
But cities of a whole region on the eastern part of Oman are not available for a search address. Such cities are perfectly found in openstreetmap. Here an example with the city of Ibra
