[OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> Actually, for the full-featured version that does everything with no
> restrictions, it's USD2800... However, you can get free access to that
> version online if you're willing to share your maps with the world.
> It's at mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com

this service has somewhat limited routing capabilities IIRC.

> The other complicating factor is that
> there is currently no path from OSM data to cGPSMapper format. That's
> a project I'm planning, but I need to get some key pieces in place
> first. I actually rewrote the osmgarminmap XSLT stylesheet to
> transform OSM data into routable cGPSMapper format, but xsltproc
> chokes on even moderate-sized data (10 MB), so it's not usable.

xsltproc will eat a lot of memory and thus is of less use for huge amounts of 
data (like osm provides).

> The other big factor is that there is no agreement on how to do
> street/house numbers yet, so there's limited data in OSM anyway. I've
> discussing the proposal on the Wiki recently and it's been a bit
> frustrating because nobody seems to get my point.

Wasn't it possible to do it by a relation?


Best regards,

ce