[talk-au] Specialised Garmin OSM Maps for country mapping

[Liz]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matt White wrote:
> Don't know if anybody is interested, but I have created a custom set of
> Garmin IMG files for use when mapping missing roads out in rural areas.
> They have the zoom levels altered so all road types are visible at the
> 2km zoom level. The reason for these maps exist is because last weekend
> I felt very smug with myself mapping some of the unmapped parts of the
> Brisbane ranges (based on what I could see wasn't mapped on my GPS),
> only to discover when I got home that it had already been done. It
> turned out that my GPS did show those roads already mapped, but they
> weren't visible until you zoomed in to 120m, and I had the GPS zoom set
> to about 1.2km (which is far more useful a level when you are driving in
> sparsely populated areas).
>
> They can be downloaded if you are interested from
> http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmin2kzoom.php
>
> I've only tested them on a 60CSx - would be interested to see how they
> fly on the other Garmins.
etrex vista cx
could see the (nsw) tracks at 500m zoom level and after 1.2km zoom couldn't 
see anything
the map is not as up to date as i hoped - hasn't got last tuesday's excursion 
on it 

so i will learn how to fiddle the levels and stuff in mkgmap
:-(