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I'm new to OSM, having recently replaced my 12 year old Magellan GPS
with a Garmin Etrex Legend CX.<br>
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I've been following with some interest the discussion about roundabouts
and how they are mapped. I have downloaded the OSM maps into my Etrex,
but as far as I was aware, the OSM maps were not routable. They
certainly aren't on my Etrex. Any attempt to "GoTo" a waypoint or a POI
gives an error message "No roads near starting point".<br>
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Now I know that this is not a fault of the Etrex. I have a card which I
bought for $45 on eBay, which is routable, and will give turn by turn
directions to a location. It's not much of a map, though. Streets
aren't accurate, and many streets appear twice. And the nearest ATM to
a SW Sydney suburb was the Westpac bank in Ballina. (What would you
expect for a $45 card?)<br>
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But your discussion about roundabouts tells me that OSM maps can be
routable, so I must be doing something wrong when I load them. I am
downloading the individual .IMG files from the OSM Australia website
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osmaustralia.org/index.php">http://www.osmaustralia.org/index.php</a>), and I have used a utility
called MapsetToolkit to make the OSM maps appear in the Garmin
MapSource program. This lets me simply select the tiles that I want,
and transfer them to the Etrex via MapSource. It also lets me add
Contours Australia maps, so that my OSM maps have contour lines. Works
well, but the maps aren't routable.<br>
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I thought of trying the IMG2GPS program that is recommended on the OSM
Australia website, but it doesn't seem to be available any more. All
the links go to an expired domain name.<br>
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Does anyone have any suggestions?<br>
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Richard C.<b><u><font color="#000000"><a
href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mdipol/img2gps/"><strong></strong></a></font></u></b>
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