Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

averater wrote:

I don't know if this has been suggested before but the search returned 0 hits.

Yes, it's been suggested before, but the search doesn't work that well atm...

I would prefer if the map (entire world) was downloadable as a torrent. I have lots of disk space and fast enough internet connection. I don't know how much bandwidth usage you got on the server but if you got more than what the entire world is to download and enough people choose to download the torrent that should save bandwidth for you.

It's a good idea and should be doable for the server. I'll look into this.

I'd like to have the entire world since it is such a lot of clicking to choose all the tiles i want each map update. Or is it fixed so that one can download only the tiles one need and keep the rest with the autoinstaller (.exe version)?

But this is the problem... You can't use an installer that came with another map from my site to install the whole world. So I probably should provide a torrent with all the tiles and also include an installer.exe that just creates the registry keys.

Skywoolf wrote:

Personally I really hate using torrent but what I don't see is how changing to a different file format/download method would save bandwidth.

Don't worry, the torrent thing is just extra: and link on the main page to the torrent. The rest of the site will remain the same.

Also, the update for this week is delayed: The planet dump from last week was corrupted and fixing it took much longer then expected.