[OSM-talk] OSM maps on Garmin GPS

[Mikel Maron]

I can see some tie ins with the new tiling infrastructure.
For mapnik, queries are run against a PostGIS database (populated from planet.osm)
which is part of the reason why it's so fast. Rather than outputting a PNG,
this library could be plugged into mapnik, to output Garmin img. Mapnik is C++ as well.

Ah only for Windows? You are suggesting a desktop program. Could be good,
though outside my domain knowledge.

The ultimate I see is a little button next to the slippy map, "Get this map on a Garmin",
and pushing that button seamlessly loads to your device. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Cc: mikel.maron at yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:34:31 PM
Subject: OSM maps on Garmin GPS

The author of cGPSmapper (an application to create background maps for 
certain Garmin GPS such as the eTrex Legend) has now made this 
functionality available as a library, meaning that it is in principle 
possible to develop a single application that will download data from OSM 
(or load from a .osm file) and create a background map for your GPS device 
in one step. At the moment this library is for Windows only.

The way I can see such an app working is to display a preview of what the 
map would look like on the GPS and allow the user to select (by tag) what 
OSM objects to upload to the device, as well as being able to configure 
the GPS look and feel.  Any other comments/suggestions?

If I get the time I would like to work on such an app, implementation 
language would probably be C++ as the library has a C interface. If 
anyone's interested in working on this (Mikel?) let me know.

Thanks,
Nick