@ 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
I like it, and I agree that the buildings are a likely culprit. My server is not suitable for a second set of maps and for the main map I would like to continue to use the default (generic) Mkgmap stylesheet. So I should probably filter the buildings out during the preprocessing stage (before the data is given to splitter) to make this happen.
I need to think about it before I decide if this is implemented or not.
Would it be possible to get bicycle=avoid and bicycle=preferred tags to work similarly to =destination and =designated?
Maybe, I’m using the default Mkgmap stylesheet so this should go into that stylesheet first. Perhaps you can contact the maintainer of the stylesheet (Marko Mäkelä, marko dot makela at iki dot fi)? He’s also active on the Mkgmap mailinglist…
As translit preprocesses your data I experimented a bit with an option “remove ways which are buildings”. This was easily implemented. It removes only the the way (…). Not the nodes which make up the way. (that would require extra passing).
Maybe I could (for that) also remove all nodes with user=“3dShapes” but that is just an idea… I did not investigate this.
I previously contacted the mkgmap mailing list about this, they said, “Oh, we don’t really want to add tags…bug the guy generating your maps.”
Hi Lambertus
Did some of the tiles get re-numbered or something?
The country selector seems to miss out some tiles - and add others.
United Kingdom on country selector seems to pick up a bit of Turkey, but not all of England !
I’ve implemented this as a filter using Osmosis (that was easy). The resulting tiles are about half a megabyte smaller, but I’ve not published one of the test runs yet.
But, regarding Translit, it’s a bit of a bottleneck while processing on a multicore machine. Do you see a possibility to do the translation in parallel? Or, alternatively, you once wrote that you were working on integration into Mkgmap? Any progress?
Damnit, then why does one of the fella’s at that mailinglist calls himself ‘stylesheet maintainer’?
I’m sorry that this doesn’t get resolved, but I’m really not going to create an maintain my own stylesheet. If the default stylesheet of Mkgmap becomes really outdated and there isn’t a good alternative one then I’ll cancel this service.
Is there somewhere a good alternative generic Mkgmap stylesheet that is being actively developed?
It appears there is an error somewhere in the UK country definition of perhaps it was a glitch during this build. I know that some countries haven’t been defined well enough (UK and Italy for example). Still haven’t looked at it yet. But you can always manually add and remove tiles to the selection.