[OSM-newbies] Road Map Panama - Costa Rica - Nicaragua - Garman Edge 705

[SomeoneElse]

Russ Phillips wrote:
> On 28 January 2010 15:36, J.Slee <j.slee at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>> In Feb I am cycling across Central America and wondered how easy it would be to get the relevant parts of North East Panama , Costa Rica and South West Nicaragua onto a file that my Garmin Edge 705 would understand.
>>     
> Cloudmade have Garmin maps for all countries. Their North America page
> has links to the countries you want:
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america
>
>   
If you wanted to create your own map rather than use Cloudmade's 
pre-built ones (perhaps you want to see different features) it's not too 
difficult.  This wiki page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

describes the options.  Personally I tend to use "mkgmap" (because I 
always have), but if you're new to the process I might be tempted to try 
GroundTruth first.  Also, there's been some chatter on the OSM-talk list 
about creating maps for Haiti and describing the process for people new 
to it - some of the messages there might be worth a read.