[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Export Tab

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Mikel Maron wrote:
>Sent: 21 April 2008 7:49 PM
>To: Tom Hughes; dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] New Export Tab
>
>
>From: Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>
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>> > I'd like to see GPS export. Anyone want to work together on a mkgmap
>> > service? Or does one exist already?
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean? What is GPS export?
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>I want to put a map on my Garmin GPS.
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>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mkgmap
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>> Thinking about it more, if you allow requests that are so slow they
>> have to be queued then you things get vastly more complicated because
>> you have to start worrying about how to manage the queue and ensure
>> you don't accept more requests than you can actually process.
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>This wouldn't need to be something OSM export itself would need to worry
>about, but the third party service.
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>However if export to Garmin could run on the OSM servers, that would be
>easiest. Afaik, it's not terribly computationally intensive.

Indeed, I think it would be dead easy to do an mkgmap export, although
generally speaking you want quite a big area for the map which might not
mesh with the same print views.

We might also want to think about different flavours of mkgmap, for cyclists
etc for instance.

Cheers

Andy

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>-Mikel