Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

ligfietser wrote:

TJNoffy wrote:

Anyway, I'd like to know this: If I can find a specific address on the OSM site map, should I be able to find them in MapSource (and hopefully on my GPS) using maps downloaded from garmin.openstreetmap.nl? Just trying to determine if I can extend the life of my old Quest (which works fine except for the old Garmin maps).

Only if the specific housenumber is also given on OSM, you should be able to find it in Mapsource (but no guarantee that it works, the housenumber search is still experimental).

For the Netherlands it's a different case, all addresses from the Dutch BAG database are added to the OSM data, so there you are able to find more addresses than are added to OSM. Maybe in other countries such open datasets are also available, so if anyone know such source and can convert it to xml / osm format it can be added too.

Thank you for your reply, ligfietser. I've downloaded a two custom map files (using selected tiles) and cannot get either of them to find specific street numbers in MapSource, although I can find the same addresses on openstreetmap.org. I suppose that the street number data just isn't being included in the maps or isn't recognized by MapSource.

If there is something else I should be trying to make this work, I'd appreciate any suggestions. Otherwise I will just try periodically and hope that this glitch is fixed one day.

One the plus side, I did make some edits to the OSM map regarding my town and neighborhood, so hopefully that helps!