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

[Barnett, Phillip]

There's a coincidence. See my plug for mkgmap. That does everything we need to generate maps for the current Garmin generation of USB connected 'x' devices. I've started downloading and generating Garmin maps for my own use - I could start posting them somewhere I suppose.

Phillip



 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org on behalf of David Groom
Sent: Wed 2/14/2007 2:25 PM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps  was: Re:  Baghdad maps
 
----- 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






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