Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

WanMil wrote:

Today I noticed that phone cells are visible in a quite low resolution on my Garmin Oregon in which I don't expect POIs to be displayed. I think that's a mistake? Can you please check this?

And one more: Roundabouts are rendered with a higher level than usual streets, e.g. the roundabout and connected streets are highway=unclassified. The streets are rendered grey whereas the roundabout is orange.

Both items are really things that should be fixed in the stylesheet of Mkgmap.

pberck wrote:

Are the roadtrip versions working for everybody? I submitted a request yesterday, the MapSource and gmapsupp versions are approx. 280 MB, and the Roadtrip version is only 87 MB. It seems to contain only one of the tiles...

They should be functional and mostly the size of the RoadTrip installer is about equal to the other files.

One reason why yours doesn't might be because the server disk was temporary full. It's a constant struggle to keep enough space available for every service that's running on it. The Garmin maps are in high demand but require a lot of disk space. A cleanup script is running but might not be able to keep enough space available.

Can you post the download URL so I can check it out?

dyonysos99 wrote:

I've been reading a lot of posts and I also tested some maps from http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php during the last few weeks. I red that the routable maps are working now and that the feature of searching by address is supposed to work also. I tested that on my Nuvi 650 and the map is displayed on my unit very well.

The problem is that it's impossible to search by address, although I can search by city. I have a North American Nuvi (US+Canada) and I have tried with the map tile from Rome, Italy. When I try searching an address in Rome, the Nuvi asks me to enter a State (from the US) so it is impossible to start searching.

Have you seen this post and tried the suggested solution in there?

I did not have that problem with the free maps from Argentina developped with a similar concept as OSM (www.proyectomapear.com.ar). In that case, the Nuvi was asking in what country I was and Argentina appeared as a choice for address search. I don't know if they included an extra feature in their maps.

Mkgmap is an OSM specific Garmin map compiler and must learn the find address function. Some parts of the Garmin map format are publicly known, other parts not. I guess the Argentina map makers have found out how the address search works.

Is searching by addresses something that will be developped in the future or is there something I have done wrong? (I did the installation trough MapSource with the .exe file and I also tried to disable my North American maps on the unit but wihout success).

As said earlier, the address search is a beta feature. It will become better in the future.