[Talk-it-piemonte] GPS map of Piemonte from CTRN and OSM data

[Kay F. Jahnke]

Dear members of the ML!

Since I'm new on the list, let me introduce myself first: my name is 
Kay, I've been contributing to OSM for some time now as user kfj:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kfj

I am german, but I spend much time in the Piedmont, and this is where I 
do my mapping. My italian is clumsy, so I write in english.

I have created a GPS vector map of the Piedmont. The map is intended 
mainly for hiking and similar outdoor activities; I have also found it 
useful for mapping. It is a synopsis of the CTRN vettoriale 1:10.000 
(1991-2005) and OSM data. It's in garmin image format and runs on my 
etrex vista hcx, but it should also run on other GPS units using the 
same data format. The map is currently at beta stage, so I have decided 
to offer it to a limited audience for evaluation. While I have processed 
the whole area covered by the CTRN, I have also made a smaller map of 
just the northern tip of the piemontese territory. This smaller section 
may serve to establish that the map will function on your side - the 
complete map weighs in at some 300MB, so the amount of traffic needed 
just to find out it doesn't work for you after all would be a waste of 
resources. You can find the sample map here:

http://ubuntuone.com/70ApLzr7jlglmg8BVl9ldN

and the complete map here:

http://ubuntuone.com/6wok0LEk30quYb3ontLs8R

These files are zip-compressed folders containing the map (in garmin.img 
format; I trust you know what to do with such a file) plus a README and 
some files picked from the CTRN data.

If you just want to know more about the technicalities of the map, you 
can download the README file separately from here:

http://ubuntuone.com/0An1JJJwgsrqtm6YleYnBy

I release the maps under CC-BY-NC-SA license, see

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

I'd appreciate comments - especially concerning the usability on various 
GPS devices and also of grave problems with the maps, but I can't 
promise to fix reported bugs as my resources are limited.

The technical details can be found in the README accompanying the map. 
So far I haven't published my own tool chain - a set of shell scripts 
and the various styles and TYP file. I intend to do so eventually, to 
allow interested parties to emulate and improve my work, but I'd prefer 
to have some feedback first.

Kay F. Jahnke