Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

shawnsumin wrote:

So did you figure out what caused the map update to fail? (causing you to revert to September 30th version).

No. There are no logs and the terminal that contains the script output was killed because the update looked good at first glance.

Also do you know what is the progress in mkgmap adding Street Address support. From what I understand you are waiting for the Street Address support to land in mkgmap trunk branch?

Address search is working reasonably well and assigning the streets to the localities is also working much better after the locator branch was merged with trunk. Use MapSource to create a good address index for the GPS, the gmapsupp as provided by the website isn't as good in that aspect.

Also a little confused about the Street Address in OSM via web browser.

That service is provided by the Nominatim software. The streetnames, places etc are part of the OSM data and Nominatim is a fast geolocator. The problem with the Garmin maps is that the index format wasn't understood very well for a long time. That's why Nominatim worked quite well and Garmin maps not. But as said things are shaping up.

Is Searching by Street Address supposed to work via the web browser: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ ?

Finding a housenumber will be difficult as most housenumbers aren't mapped yet. But finding a street or placename should work very well, but also depending on the fact if it is mapped.

JacobGarvelink wrote:

Hi There, really great stuff openstreetmap! I have a (probably noob) question. I have selected one tile (southern Portugal) last evening, I did receive the confirmation e-mail but I have not yet received the e-mail of my 'window opening' eventhough this should have been open this morning. I am probably just impatient but I was wondering wether there might be something wrong with server? I am leaving on Monday so this is why I am bit pressed for time. At this moment the delay seems to be 1.2 days! Sorry for bothering you, I hope somebody finds time to help.

The custom map server (i.e. non-country requests) was apparently rebooted and the map making scripts didn't resume handling requests after that. This has been fixed now, you should receive your map shortly now.