[OSM-talk] Garmin maps was: Re: Baghdad maps

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.D. Schmidt" <jdsmobile at gmail.com>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Baghdad maps


> David Groom skrev:
>> Dutch
>>
>> I think you might be  a bit over optimistic :)  Mapping a whole city of 
>> 6-7
>> million people takes a bit of time.
>>
>> Probably only about 50 % of Baghdad is currently mapped in detail.
>>
>> I've got the major roads, parks, forested areas, River Tigris, and 
>> railway
>> lines complete, but large amounts of the unclassified streets are still 
>> to
>> be completed.
>>
>> David
>
> Well, now we know what you will be spending the next week on... What are
> you waiting for.. Get to it.. :D
>
> Seriously, you've done good work so far, keep it up. I just showed the
> Osmarender to a USN friend of mine, who just came home from a tour over
> there, doing ECM work against IED (the roadside bombs). When I told him
> that he actually could take that data and make a map for his personal
> Garmin GPS, he said "I wish I had something like that with me, when I 
> left."
> (No comments on what was available in the Humvee's he drove around in,
> when doing his assigned duty.)
>
> J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt

We probably have enough data now that many areas could usefully have Garmin 
maps made of them

Reading  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSMGarminMap it occurs to 
me that the barrier to entry for producing Garmin maps is perhaps a bit too 
high for the average user.

It would be nice if we could make things a bit easier.  I guess the 
licensing rules of cGPSmapper probably means we cant actually produce Garmin 
img files automatically, but if we could provide polish images files I think 
it would help.

What I'm think of is something along the lines of tiles at home or osm at home, 
so maybe polish at home   :)

Maybe even link it into osm at home ?  Though would probably need some better 
way of defining bounding boxes.

Sadly my programming skills are not up to this.

David