Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Oh ok, maybe because the disk space on the Edge 520 is so small that it will only contain the basemap.
I have no idea why it won’t work anymore, sorry.

Hello Everybody!

Since I have not really found the answer, here my question:

Does anyone know how often the maps generated on “http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/” are synced to OSM?

Just asking because I have found a lot of errors around here where I live (Central Mississippi, USA), such as unconnected roads that actually are connected and such) and have made the appropriate edits to OSM. There those roads are ok now, but I use the openstreetmaps.nl maps for my Garmin, and my edits are not reflected there, even those made months ago…

Thanks!

Hi DrTron
at the bottom right of the big blue map at on http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ the last update is “Map version: 20-06-2020”
I assume the country maps were updated then.
Lambertus in recent times when everything was running fully he was updating about once per month but since then it has become less frequent.
Your edits won’t be reflected in these maps until they are updated.

I suggest you try other versions of Garmin suitable maps as listed here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
There are a variety of choices on the Bbbike site https://extract.bbbike.org/ and it operates very reliably and the update cycle is weekly.
You can find when it was last updated by referring to point 7 on the faq listed at the end of the help page, specifically here https://download.bbbike.org/osm/planet/

The HOT export tool https://export.hotosm.org/en/v3/also has very up to date data available for download in a Garmin suitable format.

Another solution if you don’t find a suitable map provider is to make your own by downloading a pbf of the area you want from Geofabrik https://www.geofabrik.de/geofabrik/ which is probably updated daily and then using mkgmap http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/ to make your own maps. It’s a steep learning curve and complex at first but once you have it worked out and done a couple of updates it will seem simple and you can run the program to produce a new map quite quickly from the command line.

Thank you very much for the information, I totally missed that there is a date.
As the maps one can download are generated more-or-less on the fly, I somehow assumed that they directly accessed the OSM database or that the update was scripted and therefore must be up to date. I now see it’s not that way.

But that site’s not the only one, I see outdated maps on quite a few sites out there using OSM.

I’ll have a look around to see what’s out there (I use the maps for motorcycling, so bike-friendly topographic maps (which there are a lot out there) is not what I need, but if all fails I’ll just have to build my own maps as suggested. I’m a Linux user, so a commandline tool is nothing new for me.

Hello,
I am using http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ to download the latest version of the map of France.
I realize that the version is old and from June 20.
It seems that it is no longer updated.
the problem is the same for other countries.
Thank you for your comeback.

Hi, Same to me:

Anyone has an idea or information when this Issing will be resolved?

I don’t think there is any maintenance on the map.
Better look for a alternative.

Sadly, I have yet to find an alternative where one can get both the maps for the device plus the installer for Basecamp.
Short of building your own map, I’ve not gone this route yet.

I use https://extract.bbbike.org/
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-vw0bu_FE

When will custom maps be available again?
Currently only country maps are available, additionally I found that some country maps do work in Basecamp but not in Garmin devices via sd-card.

Don’t expect that happening on this website since the maintainer does not respond.

I used http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ for creating small maps for my garmin 520, as it has only ±100MB of storage for maps.
I tried other sites, but did not work for me.

BUT, if you select your country on http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ on the left you will see a list of all the tiles used and you can download the individual tiles. For Belgium it was 53 tiles and it took me a while to map the tiles to a screenshot of the map from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

Using the mkgmap I’m able to combine the tiles I need for my next ride.

Would be nice that you could download the tile by clicking it on the map, so that I don’t need to figure out the correlation between the tile on the map and the .img file.
Or is there another way to find out this information?

Since you already use mkgmap you might as well generate the map on your own.

Hello all,
First of all, thanks for this great maps.
On my etrex 30x they go very well.
I have just some doubts regarding routing options:
On the etrex 30x, with this map, I should not Don’t avoid highways/motorways right?
Because Motorways and other roads that are blocked for cyclists are non routable. like stated herehttp://www.openfietsmap.nl/tips-tricks/routing-errors right?

Is this the same for Edge 530?
Thank you a lot

Depends on the selected map type. Only if you use “Routable Bicycle” you should follow those hints.

Sorry, I missed to say that, Routable Bicycle (Openfietsmap Lite) yes.
Thank you for the info.
Do you know if for https://extract.bbbike.org/ using Garmin (OSM) the behaviour is the same?

No, "Garmin (OSM) "is probably the mkgmap default style, which is not bicycle specific, but bbbike also offers maps with the openfietsmap style.

When you talk about style is the type of routing right?
Because, regarding looks I prefer this garmin version.

It’s not only the look. The style also sets routing attributes. For example, the cycle maps typically will not allow to use motorways. They may route cars over cycle ways because car mode means “racing bike”. So, if you want to use the routing functions for car traffic cycle maps are a bad choice. The maps are produced with program mkgmap, see http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/ for more details.

It seems this resource has not been updated in nearly half a year. The latest data available is from 20 June 2020.