This may be a problem specific to the map you have downloaded. Perhaps you could let us know which tiles you downloaded, or the directory of your download, so we can try to reproduce the problem. I was able to successfully install other tiles, so I don’t think it’s a general problem.
You may also wish to try the latest MapInstall beta. This version appears to be much more stable than previous releases:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4729
Cheers
I tried again with these tiles (http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/03-02-2010/c03ab2e075c79b73cd44114417e1d915/) and was able to install without any errors – I did use the beta version of MapInstall though.
Cheers.
I still having the same problems as I posted a couple days ago.
The tile on the far eastern side of Australia is not working. I can’t zoom in any closer than 5Km as shown in the image I posted a couple days ago.
I am not using Mapsource. I am using Roadtrip on a Mac. It’s been like this for a week and a half now. Unfortunately the area in question is where I live and travel.
The directory was planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/03-02-2010/c03ab2e075c79b73cd44114417e1d915 but I think its dead now, sorry.
I am using MapInstall Version 2.1.3 Release. http://www8.garmin.com/support/collection.jsp?product=999-99999-06 This seems to be later than the beta in your post. Do you reckon its better to downgrade to the older beta ?
Just to clarify, I am able to install the map onto RoadTrip fine. Its just transferring the map to my GPS unit via MapInstall brings up the problem. I tried clicking on the link you posted for the tiles that worked for you but the link is dead.
I’ll try to download a new set of tiles and I’ll let you know what happens.
Oh yeah, I just want to say a very big thank you to Lambertus and yourself (and all who contribute) for this EXCELLENT service. It is superb. OSM and my Garmin GPS unit would be nothing with out the ability to use the OSM maps on my GPS unit. I have used your service for just about a year now and it is excellent. I appreciate your good work. Cheers.
Someone on the Mkgmap mailinglist reports the same problem as Kevin70 (crashing in MapSource) and you (crashing in RoadTrip). It appears that some table in the image is too big. Ofcourse Mkgmap tries make Garmin maps using a reversed engineered Garmin image format, so errors like these can be expected now and then.
I should probably make sure the images are made a bit smaller due to this problem. Unfortunately, the next update is already running, so I guess that one has to be stopped and restarted with different parameters.
Maybe the problems with MapInstall reported by Groundspeak are related as well. So, lets hope that a newer Mkgmap and smaller tiles will solve this in the next update.
Thanks for letting me know about the updated MapInstall: I had missed that. The release notes appear to be identical to those from the Beta version, so the updated version may just be a renamed beta release.
I did download and install the 2.1.3 version, and retested again with the three tiles of the Ireland map. Again I was able to install successfully. I did this by installing to an SD card mounted directly in the reader slot of my Macbook Pro (OS 10.6.2). Are you installing from a different configuration, such as directly to your Garmin device via USB?
Let us know your results with the new tiles. Also, you should perhaps ensure that you clear your map selection in MapInstall before reselecting the tiles (Apple-Command-D).
Cheers
I am installing directly to my GPS. I install the map with MapManager which works sucessfully. I open RoadTrip and check the map and confirm it is installed successfully. Then I try to upload to my GPS but I can’t even get MapInstall to open to the page that allows me to use CMD+D. I get that error message. and then MapInstall “closes unexpectedly”
However if I reinstall my last good OSM maps it all works fine even in MapInstall!
I am no programmer, but I was going to try to open the good and the bad OSM maps in a Hex editor and take a quick look to see if anything looked wrong (to my unskilled eye). But OS X wont allow me open the either of the .gmapi files in a hex editor. Nor will it allow me to open their package contents .gmap files in a Hex editor either. It’s very unlikeley I would have been able to spot anything wrong with the Hex editor anyway.
I’ll let you know what happens when I install my next set of maps.
I put a request for the same area and downloaded the map but the same error happens (kind of thought it would but I gave it a go anyway)
I’ll try again when a newer version of the area is available.
The link I downloaded from is http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/03-02-2010/c03ab2e075c79b73cd44114417e1d915/ and is available for 48hrs
Hey Lambertus,
what a great new feature to download the requested tiles for a country as filelist or combined gmapsupp.img immediately without a request via e-mail!!!
Great!!!
And also the countries in alphabetic order, fine!
Keep up your excellent work and thank you very much,
flux.
I downloaded a new rendering from http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/10-02-2010/c7c509421d7f5857cab8f39a6c0cea12/ based on OSM data from 10-02-2010
Unfortunately the error still occurs. MapInstall gives the same error “Alert. There is a problem with the OSM World Routable installation. Please re-install OSM World Routable and start MapInstall again” and then crashes.
mkg mapversion:1568
Requested tiles:63240558.img, 63240559.img, 63240562.img, 63240563.img
The curious thing is that the older map based on OSM data from 20-01-2010 works fine with MapInstall.
I came across http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gmapibuilder#Caveats . It says that errors like mine can and do happen. It gives instructions for a terminal.app fix to clear MapInstaller. It says “open up a Terminal.app and execute”.
My question is how do you “execute” in terminal.app?
You open the Terminal apprication, and type the two lines mentioned (“rm ~/…”).
The Terminal app can be found in the /Applications/Utilities folder) I think 
)
-peter
This is a terrible description for telling to remove two files and instructions for how to do that.
rm is a “remove file” command. To execute it you open a terminal window and then type,
My opinion is that he could better have said to remove two files.
Not only that, surely it can be done from a normal “finder” window as well. More people are probably familiar with that…
-peter
Thanks for the reply guys.
I am after coming across a warning in a book (Mac OS X Leopard for Dummies!). It says
“You can wreck havoc upon your poor operating system with Terminal. You can harm your Leopard in many ways that just aren’t possible using windows and icons and clicks. Before you type a single command think seriously about what I said. And if you’re not 100% certain about the command you’ve just typed, don’t even think about pressing return or Enter”
I am a bit of a mac noob and a total Terminal noob… so with that warning seared in my mind I think I will hold off messing with Terminal for a while…
Thanks for your responses, though. Cheers
there appears to be a bug in the “France” preset.
it’s missing the tile containing “Le Mans”
Not only that one. If you select Europe | france then about five tiles are not selected. Add them manually (by first checking “enable manual tile selection”).
The problem has been discussed before in this thread. The reason for the missing tiles is the polygon file used for france which is not describing the boundary as matchit likes it to be done.
Everyone could contribute here by providing a good country polygon in .gpx or .poly format describing the boundary.
Lambertus,
All my OSM maps in Roadtrip and on my Garmin Colorado 300 have a blue dot POI in the middle of every road.
The whole map looks like a martian with chicken pox…
From what I have found, the option
–road-name-pois= 0x2f15 (or a different code)
does this to allow searching roads. Did you turn this on recently (in the last week or two)?
It’s not needed to use Terminal to do that.
Open a Finder window and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/MapInstall/lastSelected.gdb. No need to delete the .plist.
I noticed this crash about a year ago and posted over in forums.Garmin.com but they were clueless.
Actually, I was finally able to reproduce your problem today. I received the same error about the damaged map installation and the crash of MapInstall. I believe this occurred because I had just re-installed a re-compiled version of a map. This was the same map which I had previously selected and sent to my GPS device, only this time, the map had fewer tiles than before. Since MapInstall attempts to save the last selected tiles between runs, I think it tried to select a now non-existent tile, causing the error.
At any rate, to solve the problem you don’t have to use Terminal, and you don’t have to delete anything. Just do the following:
Make sure MapInstall is not running.
Open the following folder: /Library/Application Support/Garmin
Rename the folder “MapInstall” to “MapInstall.old” (or rename it to “MapInstall.2” or something similar).
Restart MapInstall. You should now be able to reselect and transfer your map tiles without error.
(The folder which you renamed contains a file which saves your last-selected tiles. When the MapInstall program cannot find the folder named “MapInstall”, it creates a new folder with an empty selection file.)
I hope this helps.
Cheers.