Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

An email on the talk mailinglist triggered some new ideas/improvements to the site. I'll reproduce my answer here to get your feedback as well:

colliar wrote:

Maarten Deen wrote:

Have a look at http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
Ther you can choose which regions to download. They will be packaged in
one map file.

Thanks.
Is there a possibility to get/store your individual tile lists ?

Unfortunately no. At least not at the moment. The tile boundaries and numbers vary between updates which makes keeping lists up-to-date difficult.

But I can imagine that users specify their own bounding box (polygon) of interest and let the website select the appropriate tiles that fit the polygon. This already works for the countries, so it should not be a huge deal to implement for user defined polygons. Would this meet your needs?

colliar wrote:

Can you download builds of current day ?

No. Maps are updated approximately once a week.

colliar wrote:

Let say 100 people want a update of Vienna next friday.

Two options:

- They can select Austria from the drop-down menu and start downloading immediately (only one person has to request the Austria map and wait for the server to complete the request).

- If everyone selects the same tiles for their custom request then they will (currently) have to enter their email address but the server will render the custom request only once and send an email with the download link to all who entered their email.

Perhaps I should enable the check for already available maps for custom maps as well. But this will generate an AJAX request to the server for every tile (de-)selected though...

Thoughts?