Looks like things are running very slow at the moment! can anyone tell me if it will take 6.6 days to get my maps? Im heading away last minute and could really do with the maps.
ref.: #2734 & 2753
Apparently, maps build by requests that entered the queue ordinarily on April 21 got lost: The message about reaching the end of the queue and of sending e-mails with the download-link was issued on Sunday morning - but these download links did never arrive.
Instead, I got the downloads for a later request (originating from April 24) making clear that we cannot blame the e-mail servers. Rather, something was wrong with osm2.pleiades on last Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
Please fix this terrible performance!!! one server is doing absolutly NOTHING! the other had over 2600 requests with a waiting time of more than 10 days!
Now it says there is no information, so the map should be ready.
But i have not received any email saying that i can download the map.
i had the same problem just a week ago, and i had to request the map again, but also this time i never got the ready-mail.
i checked if it ended up in spam, but no. i simply never got it.
Unfortunately Lambertus doesn’t seem to communicate so we don’t know what’s going on. @Mschuns: shouting doesn’t help here. If you don’t behave you will be banned.
thanks ligfietser,
I looked at bbbike and I have to say I like it.
There is only one drawback. it only creates .img files.
Anyone knows of an simple way to install the .img files to Garmin Basecamp?
I mean simpler than installing and configuring GMapTool and MapTk, etc…
Kind of point and click…
And not just adding the file to an USB drive into the \Garmin folder, but actually installing it as map in Basecamp…
Yes, this is what I mentioned indirectly with USB drive and putting the .img file into the Garmin folder on that drive. A Garmin device is (more or less) nothing else than a USB storage for BaseCamp.
However, if I remove the device (or USB) from the PC, I will loose access to the .img map.
This is one of the reasons I want to actually install the .img file into BaseCamp. The website garmin.openstreetmap.nl allows me to download not only the .img file, but also the installer exe to add the map to BaseCamp.
This is what I miss on bbbike.com. This site, is focussed only on devices and this .img files.
Grokit, a workaround is to drag and drop the gmapsupp.img onto the osmcombiner tool. It can make an installable map for Basecamp. The only drawback is that the img doesn’t contain the tiles for the overview map, you need to zoom in a little bit more until you will see the map.
Maybe the logjam is clearing - the number of requests is finally decreasing, now down to ~1500 requests and 6.5 days although still only loaded on 1 server.
I’m try now a few day’s to download the map Germany.
The map is 1,5GB.
Normally it takes about 5 minutes. Now the browser say’s 9 hours or more.
So i did try one time to download the map only when youre almost done you get the messege the server
For the rest I came here to check what was going on the queue seemed to have become a lot shorter very fast but I think my request has been lost.
I am on the road soon and have what i need with the state tiles.
Maybe it is a good idea to make a different selection for the Americas as ppl travel over state borders a lot and if you are in texas getting the texas map is fine but if you are up the east coast you need to get a lot of little states with a lot of overlap in between them.
If needed I can try to make some sane area selections. Both in terms of travel and file size.