Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Steve8x8 wrote:

I frequently use this service, and have a few remarks.

Both routable maps have the same identification string "OSM generic routable", for all tile selections and countries, not making a difference between "old" and "new" styles. This makes it difficult to store more than one map on the device, and switch between them.

Yes, originally the idea was to replace the 'old' generic routable with the 'new' but I'm not sure anymore. Alternatively 'old' is transformed into a lite version for Garmin devices with little storage (e.g. some Etrex series).

As a by-product, I cannot say whether I like the new style better...

Is there anything specific you don't like? By specifying the maintainer(s) of the styles can possibly improve them...

As the map images are created on request (and kapt in cache for some time) it would certainly be possible to add the country name, and/or in the case of an individually combined map, the creation timestamp?

For predefined country maps this should be possible and is actually a long standing wish. It only needs my time to implement which is on short supply lately. Regarding custom maps things get much more difficult. For starters: the custom map build program doesn't know what area has been chosen or how to name it. Another long standing wish is to allow the user to provide his preferred product id, description etc. but A) it makes the process for inexperienced users much more difficult B) requires a large time investment which -as said- I currently don't have.

As an aside: I recently created a GitHub account so I can upload this forum but could use the same account to manage/share/cooperate the http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl code as well.

Also, most pre-built OSM maps for Garmin completely lack information about the planet file they have been derived from - yes, there's metadata available (for some time, at least, but gone soon after a selective download), and perhaps the space for such data is very limited (about 50 characters?)... it might be a signal to other map makers if such basic identification information could be merged by default.

Is this really important information? You'd probably know if a map is old or new anyway...

In any case, I like this service a LOT - and wish to have something similar in MapsForge/OpenAndroMaps format that's not months old...

Thanks to Lambertus for this brilliant idea - and everyone involved for keeping this website running!

Thanks for the compliments. The other two main contributors are Ligfietser + Beddhist (Mkgmap commandline and styles) and aditionally Oxilion.nl + Harenber (servers) and Greencaps (some special utilities for transliteration and country/tile matching).