Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Fod wrote:

I have an old (but waterproof) Garmin GPS V

Whoa, a blast from the past. I bought one of those 2nd hand in the UAE and used it on my bike trip until Thailand.

Fod wrote:

The GPS V has very limited capacity

You said it. I found that using a Garmin city map the CPU was too slow to auto-route. Unless you want to display the map only and not use routing I strongly suggest you use the Nuvi or perhaps shell out for a low-end Zumo. Nuvi 500 can probably be found 2nd hand and is waterproof.

Splitter is used to split OSM data, not Garmin maps.

To produce my own ad-hoc maps I download OSM data with JOSM and the alternate download plugin. I have the mkgmap configuration files that ligfietser and I have developed for Lambertus' new style and a batch file that starts the compilation. I just drop an OSM file onto the batch file and that gives me a bunch of files which I can then install into Mapsource, from where they can be loaded into the GPS. It's fiddly and longwinded to set up, but now it's almost drag and drop.

Are you sure the tiles from the site won't fit into your GPS V?

Cheers,
Peter.