Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

shonkylogic wrote:

An alternative might be to disable user-custom tile selection builds and focus on the pre-built sets of pre-defined regions, ie. a set of tiles for each country, or larger or smaller regions based on population and map density. Then the builds could be mirrored across a number of sites. When a user selects a pre-defined set, they could be given URLs for a mirror site from which to download instead. This should reduce bandwidth, harddisk space and CPU issues.

I would be happy to put a mirror of pre-built OSM maps for Garmin on my site - my site currently serves around 150GB of (non-OSM) garmin maps and I'm only paying 6USD/month.

This suggestion has popped-up a few times now but I'm very weary of it. If someone is just looking for a single country then they already have lot's of choices. The novelty of this service is that you can have it combine and pre-package tiles from multiple countries in an relatively simple way. Going back to 'only countries' would be a huge step back IMHO and would make this service just one of many.I think that: "if it's just about countries, then I think it's best for the OSM community in each country to provide the Garmin maps".

So, in short: going back to whole countries only is the last resort and I might just shut the operation down at that point. I do really appreciate the offer for providing alternative hosting though!