[talk-au] Australian maps for Garmin devices

[Brendan Barnes]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:50, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/4/21 9:06 am, Brendan Barnes wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, 18:34 Warin, <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 23/4/21 1:19 pm, Bob Cameron wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> OSMand can be set to show surface. It can also display access.  I have it
>> set up that way for my walking.
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> Thanks for the suggestion, but OSMand is for Android. For Garmin it has to
> be added to the styling rules during file processing.
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> There is a version of OSMand for iphones... may not be as good as the
> android version.
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> However it does demonstrate the capability of rendering road surfaces, and
> access. It does nothing for smoothness nor incline.
>

Cheers, but I'm asking specifically about putting OSM maps on Garmin GPS
devices (for example, Etrex 20x). When I'm backcountry hiking I will always
use a dedicated GPS which is a rugged, waterproof unit which runs on
swappable batteries. I'd never rely on a smartphone for navigation.

>
>> Cheers
>> On 23/4/21 10:36 am, Brendan Barnes wrote:
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>> Prompted by Bob's post about alternativaslibres.org error file this
>> morning (jogged my memory, thanks Bob).
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>> I use the 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, 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.
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>> You can still get a map from them .. but it has to be the entire country.
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> 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.
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> Looks to be up now.  And, yes, the date is mid last year.
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After a bit of poking around, turns out if I access
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ from a Chrome browser I get the AU map from
last June. If I access the same site again from a Firefox browser (which is
what I'd been using all this time) I get the "Apache is functioning
normally" error and the rest of the site doesn't load.
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