Ah, I understand now, thanks much!
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?
Thanks!
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.
Thanks
Frank
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Welcome to the forum, Frank.
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.
Regards,
Peter.
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 :
Plains Assembly, Texas
Plains Junction, Pennsylvania
Plains Junction, Texas
Plains Mill, Virginia
(I am using the 3-4 2015 release.)
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.
Thanks
Frank
Try leaving the city field empty when searching for addresses.
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.
Thanks
Frank
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.
Dear Lambertus.
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?
Thanks again.
Juan
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
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/221243242#map=9/22.6896/58.5470
What am I doing wrong on my Garmin?
Thank you in advance
Daniele
An update is running, the two generic maps are already available, the openfietsmap update is still running
The Garmin maps by garming.osm.nl use a Latin1 character encoding, so there is only Roman-like texts in the map. Since the website does not have Arabic transliteration capabilities, only places and streets with translated names are correctly included in the maps.
@Lambertus,
Could you manage to point your scripts to the style sheets on Github? (The former styles on Google code are not longer maintained and will be removed by Google sooner or later)
Thanks to Harry vd Wolf and OSM France I have uploaded the French open address database BANO. Can you merge this with the planet OSM data (same procedure as the Belgium address data)?
I tried, but the path names within the typ and style directories have changed and require more changes in my code. It took too long in my opinion and thus started the update using the Google Code repository.
Yes.
I usually download the Mac Pakage to install OSM Garmin maps on my Win computer with BaseCamp. It works fine, thanks to everybody involved in this project.
Then I use MapInstall (from BaseCamp) to install maps on my Montana device. This works fine as well. The search function works, too.
On the other site, if I simply copy the gmapsupp.img on my device as recomended, the search function doesn’t work.
I checked this right now: I’ve searched an address in Prag, the capital of Czech Republic, on my Montana. The city of Prag was not found! The same search with the same map in BaseCamp was ok. After this I’ve reinstalled the map with MapInstall from BaseCamp (install map on SD-card) - and everything was good.
I believe the instructions on this site should be updated. A lot of people complain about search function, maybe because they simply copy the gmapsupp.img instead of using MapInstall.
No, this should work normally. Sounds more like an index problem of the gmapsupp.img. Did you try the latest map release of this week, and which map exactly?
Yes, I think so, too.
I’ve tried it several times with different maps in past one or two years. It is allways the same. That’s why I allways install maps first in BaseCamp and then from BaseCamp on my device.
I’ve checked the copy way a a few days ago only to see, if someting changed.
I’ve also seen, that the downloded gmapsupp.img and the gmapsupp.img after BaseCamp installation on the device have different size.