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

[Nick Whitelegg]

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Nick Whitelegg
14/02/2007 14:35


To:     David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
cc:     Robert.Hart at BuroHappold.com 
Subject:        Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps was: Re: Baghdad maps 




>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.

There seem to be at least two efforts underway on this. There is a Java 
application (mkgmap) which will convert .osm to img. Also, Robert Hart has 
started "libimg" (in SVN) which is in C++; it looks like it aims to be a 
library for converting OSM to IMG. The latter is particularly interesting 
as - being C++ - once it's done it will be easy to develop a web service 
to automatically download an IMG (no need for Tomcat, JSP etc)

Another opportunity raised by libimg is the possibility of a standalone 
GUI app to create IMG files, which could use OSM and other data.

(Rob - incidentally how far have you got with libimg? )

Nick