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?
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.
Tested the map of Czech Republic with the gmapsupp.img version, I can find Prague or Praha or an address so I dont know why this doesn’t work for your device. It is true that the gmapsupp version produced with Basecamp or Mapsource is different and might have a better search index, because the gmapsupp.img from garmin.openstreetmap.nl is generated with mkgmap software. This is software is developed by ‘reverse engineering’ because Garmin doesn’t provide the code for its maps, and therefore it could not produce an optimal search index. But anyway, its not true that it can’t find anything or “does not work”.
Ok, I understand, thanks for your input. The manual tile selection has a different processing regarding the compilation of a gmapsupp.img so yes it can be important. Could you verify if for instance the Czech map alone produce a different search result?
In order to test it correctly, make sure there are no other maps on your device. Even if they are not activated, those map indexes will be used (and possibly disorder the search) by the device, so rename the extension .img temporarily.
@Lambertus, the search index is fine, and the search index of a big custom map too (Monviso reported me it is working for him too) so I guess those problems were caused by either experimental mkgmap versions or missing parameters in the upload scripts which seem corrected now.
Is the 2015-03-29 version of the Garmin map broken? I tried it out yesterday and it just didn’t work. The Garmin went back to its built in base mapping. I put back the previous map version I was using and the Garmin works again.
I downloaded the Garmin format map file, as usual, from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ for the UK. Also tried selecting UK plus some additional tiles to make the server do a fresh file but it still didn’t work.
Sometimes issues occur when having several mapsets on the device with duplicate tiles. You can check this with http://www.javawa.nl/jdm_en.html
Don’t know if this the case here?
Sorry I don’t understand completely. The same map loaded into Basecamp for mac shows the cities (even searchable), which il not the case for the search in the Garmin: many cities appear in the map but are not searchable.
I have a Nüvi 2595 , is it the reason? What should I do? Thank you!
I downloaded the Oman map, searched for Ibra on my old nüvi 310 and found it. So your nüvi might have an issue. Dont know what you could do about it, sorry.
I’ve been watching the date of the Open Street Map version used to derive the Garmin images, but it has not yet changed from 29th March.
HOWEVER this morning I tried doing a repeat download of the same UK image. Looking at the file properties, it’s exactly the same size as the one which wouldn’t work for me but the date is later. Investigating further from a Linux terminal,
Hi Lambertus,
I have been a contributer to OSM and a user of your maps for a few years now. Thank you for providing such a great service.
I have noticed that the download site has not been updated since 29 March 2015. Is there a problem? Any idea when the site will be updated again? I’m sure I’m not alone in asking this question. Just looking forward to having my latest edits (and those of others) available on my GPS.
Thanks again for providing this valuable resource.
Kind regards,
Shaun
I wanted to report an issue/problem with producing a map for a Garmin device. The size produced on the website for “Selected Tiles” is not accurate enough. For instance in this case, the reported size on the web site is 3768MB. However, the size of gmapsupp.img file is 4.17GB. It may not be a large difference, but the problem is that the SD card for my Garmin device must be formatted as FAT32, and the file size limit for FAT32 is 4GB, and therefore i cannot put the generated file on my Garmin device. Is there any way to know more accurately the size of the selected tiles, in order to stay within that size limit?
Also, i tried a second time, by selecting fewer tiles (guessing a bit about what size would be produced). This time the web site reported size of selected tiles as 3230MB. However, this time, i got “Error, too many tiles selected, please limit your selection…”. However, this time the selection is smaller than it was the first time.
So, not sure what to make of that error message since the number of tiles selected this time is lower.
I was trying to get all of US and Canada on one device, but apparently it will not all fit, so now trying to get as close as possible to that, while staying under 4GB in file size. Any suggestions?
