Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Lambertus wrote:

Treadly wrote:

Lambertus I think your work is awsome, you must be incredibly clever!

Lol thanks. But no, the people who develop Mkgmap are the clever ones here 🙂

I'd like to see software that can grab data from an MP file and upload it to OSM. The map I've made using Mapedit is superior to the OSM one because it's so much more user friendly.

An MP to OSM converter? Just out of curiosity: What makes Mapedit so much better then JOSM then Merkaator?

Question, where do you see the future of mapping going and where will your own projects lead? 😛

Pff, difficult question this early. Well, I hope to see much more use of OSM data (why would we map anyway otherwise?). Mostly my projects appear at the time OSM is ready for it. E.g. the forum was introduced when OSM became also interesting to people other then geeks. Yournavigation.org was developed when The Netherlands, UK and Germany had fairly complete roadnetworks. The routable Garmin maps were a longtime wish but I refuse to do a lot of manual work each week so I waited until the tools had evolved enough to do the generation automatically. If other interesting areas to work on popup then I'll do it (if my GF allowes it 😛).

I didn't know Merkaator existed and having had a bit of a play with it I'm impressed! So far I've been using Potlatch and JOSM, but Merkaator looks much nicer and is more flexible.

Question 1: I don't understand what extract does, how do I convert GPX raw data into a track directly without having to trace it manually? (In Mekanator)

Question 2: When I zoom out on the raw GPX data the track quickly disappears, it's a bit like looking at a road through a keyhole, can the raw GPX tracks be made visible at wider zoom levels? (In Mekanator)

Question 3: Could some sub groups be added to the forum index for OSM software? For example, Potlatch, JOSM, Merkaator, Mkgmap and a few others. At the moment all the questions are grouped together and it's difficult to look through the answers to find what you're looking for. I know there's a search engine but it doesn't always find what you want.

Thanks

Treadly