[talk-au] Australian maps for Garmin devices

[Warin]

On 24/4/21 9:06 am, Brendan Barnes wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, 18:34 Warin, <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 23/4/21 1:19 pm, Bob Cameron wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Brendan
>>
>>     More just a remark.
>>
>>     I was also interested in rolling my own mkgmap at one stage, but
>>     I also use the DEM/topo (SRTM) information and refreshing the OSM
>>     data is kind of expensive over a mobile network!
>>
>>     My biggest pet peeve was that the Garmin device doesn't show road
>>     surface (like as a dashed line), but will happily exclude
>>     unsealed from routing decisions. I have been using it to make
>>     route/OSM/imagery update decisions as I wander around.
>>
>
>     OSMand can be set to show surface. It can also display access.  I
>     have it set up that way for my walking.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but OSMand is for Android. For Garmin it 
> has to be added to the styling rules during file processing.


There is a version of OSMand for iphones... may not be as good as the 
android version.

However it does demonstrate the capability of rendering road surfaces, 
and access. It does nothing for smoothness nor incline.

>
>>     Cheers
>>
>>     On 23/4/21 10:36 am, Brendan Barnes wrote:
>>>     Prompted by Bob's post about alternativaslibres.org
>>>     <http://alternativaslibres.org> error file this morning (jogged
>>>     my memory, thanks Bob).
>>>
>>>     I use the alternativaslibres.org <http://alternativaslibres.org>
>>>     Australian maps for my Garmin GPS and Basecamp, so it is good to
>>>     see other Aussies using that site.
>>>
>>>     We used to have garmin.openstreetmap.nl
>>>     <http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl>, and in my opinion that was the
>>>     best OSM Garmin map data for AU. Frequently updated, good clear
>>>     carto on Basecamp, and clear map on GPS unit with decent file
>>>     size. Sadly that site broke in June last year and looks unlikely
>>>     to return.
>     You can still get a map from them .. but it has to be the entire
>     country.
>
>
> That was the case intermittently last year, with the last AU country 
> file rendered June 2020. If you check the site today it just shows an 
> Apache server message only.


Looks to be up now.  And, yes, the date is mid last year.


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