[Talk-ca] Addresses and POI

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Marc Provencher
<marc at marcprovencher.com> wrote:
> In Mapsource, with the Metroguide map, when I hover over a street with the
> mouse pointer, a small text box (tooltip) will show up with addresses at
> that point.
>
> With OSM (again in Mapsource), this doesn't work.
>
> Is that because OSM doesn't have address tags for that street? If so, what
> methods have others used to import or enter large number of addresses in
> OSM? I'm in Calgary, Canada. Geobase doesn't seem to have an address layer.

Dave Hansen, over on talk-us makes a periodic announcement regarding
the Garmin image files he builds.  It's based on some work Lambertus
has done and may be in active development.  Here's a copy of Dave's
latest announcement.  Perhaps his links will help.

These are based off of Lambertus's work here:

       http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php

I wrote scripts to joined them myself to lessen the impact of doing a
large join on Lambertus's server.  I've also cut them in large longitude
swaths that should fit conveniently on removable media.

       http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/16-04-2010

There have been some missing tiles from Lambertus's map (the red
rectangles),  I don't see any at the moment, so you may want to update
if you had issues with the last set.

If you buy a new card (especially SDHC), some are FAT16 from the
factory.  I had to reformat it to let me create a >2GB file.