There are quite a number of free file hosting services around where you can store the files for free and people can d/l for free, if they are prepared to wait 30-60 secs. I’m not sure if you can automate the uploads, though…
Lambertus,
the latest update of the map seems to be 26-06. Is there an issue with the updates? Hugo
Not sure if those services will be happy to accept around 150 GB every 48 hours from one IP address, but it’s an option to look into. Thanks.
Some planet dump problems and big internet connection problems at home (my ADSL connection dropped from 12 mbit to around 700 kbit down in two weeks) No way I’m going to use that little bit for downloading the planet. Sorry, but updates will have to wait until the connection is repaired or the modem is replaced.
I have a question about using Open Street Map on my Garmin 450. I live by St. Louis, MO so I downloaded the sections for southern Illinois and much of Missouri over to Kansas.
So, if I want to route from my home in Illinois to an address in Kansas City, I go to select my first point (Route Planner - Create Rouse - Select First Point - Use Map) and I select “Use” at the bottom of the screen as there is a way point pin on my home address. Then I go back and choose (Select Next Point - Addresses - Spell State/Province). When I select that and spell “Missouri”, a message comes up “No Results Found. Try Adjusting Search Parameters”.
What am I doing wrong? Will OpenStreetMap allow me to put in actual street addresses and route me to them?
Thank you for your help!
For starters, I would leave the state blank, as it may or may not be mapped as such. Try putting in the street name and the city or suburb. I don’t normally create routes on my GPS, other than to pan and ‘Enter’ on a point on the map and choose ‘Goto’. That should always work.
Lambertus,
I just stumbled across the Sticky that addresses this issue. Also, I want to thank you for the time you take to develop OSM and help others with questions. It is much appreciated by all!
Beddhist,
Thank you for the response. When I go to “Spell State/Province” I spelled “Springfield” (for Springfield, MO) and the same message came up - “No Results Found. Try Adjusting Search Parameters”.
@ Lambertus, when you select Europe/United Kingdom there are some parts of the UK that have been left out, but there is also a part of Turkey in it.
Yep, similar problems in Austria, Belgium, France and (no doubt) others.
First of all: Thanks for running this great project! I use those maps always when I’m out of Europe and they are very useful!
I have one suggestion regarding s the installer (Mapsource): Would it be possible to add distinct names (maybe entered by the user) to the installed map? Right now they show up as “OSM World Routable”, but I’d like to have “Mexico”, “Washington DC”, “My Next Trip”, …
This would allow me to have several installations in parallel (assuming the registry keys reflect those names ore are a generic unique key) and therefore reduce the number of my downloads / custom map generations.
Keep up the good work
Oliver
Great idea Oliver, I agree
A great idea, but difficult to achieve unless you have the downloading user name the map set prior to creation of the installer.
The installer creates all the registry settings, so Oliver would need to be prompted for the map series name (Mexico), the map name (12345678.IMG), and the FID on the website and since Oliver would need to keep a list of his mapnames and FIDs to avoid conflicts the download would be useless for anybody but Oliver.
He’d probably be better off either compiling his own map sets, but he may be able to use MapSetToolKit to rename the sets he has.
Hi Lambertus,
How often do you update the tiles and when is the next scheduled update? I am going on a hiking trip on Aug 15 and before I go I would like download the tiles for a few trails that I added today.
Thanks
Jesus
Jesus arango,
Lambertus usually updates weekly. However, he is very silent, so it could well be he is on leave and we have to live with the version of the 26th for two or three weeks. best have a look at the home page for the routable maps and see if the date has changed,
Hugo
There is a new update now (for Belgium and ?). It would be nice to have a notice of the last update on the main page. Thx Lambertus for (in my knowledge) the only website who gives a *.gmap for roadtrip.
The date of the latest update is shown in the first line below that map (Based on OpenStreetMap data from: …)
But yes, updates have been absent lately due to summer holiday, wedding of a friend, enjoying the weather, a beer and good book in the garden, and an internet connection outage. I do plan to up the rate to approx. weekly from now on again.
Sorry i did not find it. Your site is really the best for retrieving data from OSM. Thx again.
Hi, I have been trying to get New Zealand tiles to work in MapSource. I just downloaded the latest build (09-09-2010) using the dropdown for Oceania/New Zealand which yields these tiles: NZ-Dunedin; NZ-Auckland; WS-Apia; NF-Kingston. I have achieved the best results so far, however there are still problems. In MapSource, the north and South Island of New Zealand show at 700, 500 & 300km scale, however as I zoom in, it disappears. I tried downloading just one tile and it exhibits the same behavior.
Any ideas as I want to plan a bicycle trip in New Zealand and would like to have this working.
Thanks,
Peter
Hi, Lambertus
Would like to ask you what’s your opinion concerning providing an OSM gmapsupp.img for the Garmin devices with (optional) limited objects i.e containing only objects necessary for navigation.
Over the years the map got larger and larger and the speed for certain actions became slower and slower (60csx).
Due to my impression it is especially the shape of buildings (useless for navigation) which is responsible for this decrease. There are also other useless objects like boundaries of districts which are really disturbing for navigational purposes.
Best regards
Gibuld