Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

extremecarver wrote:

If you offer country maps, it's not gonna be 5TB per month. I'm at around 500GB per day on average. During summer it spiked at around 1.5TB a day on my download servers (meaning bout 700-800 map downloads for Germany, 200-300 Italy, 200 Austria and so on -- not even offering Europe for download).

Thanks for the statistics. I guess you (and other well established country map providers) are catching the bulk of the downloads then, which limits the downloads here. The available disk space is also limiting the number of possible downloads per day.

May I ask how much you pay for your bandwidth, or is your hosting sponsored as well?

I have around 500 unique visitors on the download server (many more on the website itself) and use about 50-120 GB/day bandwidth.

BartB wrote:

@ Lambertus:
Isn't it possible to build your program (generating Garmin maps) into an already available Mapping program such as QlandkarteGT or KDE's Marble?
They have a program in which you can view an OSM map, and you already have a program on your website that turns the OSM tiles into a Garmin map. To me that sounds like 1+1=2, but I'm not a programmer...
Then you could just host the popular country maps on your site, and let users make their own special maps.

Possibly, I haven't really looked at it yet. But thanks for the tip!

(Edit: I've also found uDig, jMapViewer, MapPanel, Java GeoTools)

The point of my service is: I want people to be able to make their own map (e.g. cross-country) and to make this as user friendly as possible. "Simple" country extracts in various flavours can be (and, ofcourse, are) hosted by others, like extremecarver and ligfietser.