[OSM-talk] urban surveying speed - can it be estimated as population per hour?

[Dave]

On 07/06/07, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
> "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net> writes:
>
> > If we can get OSM on TomToms or a similar devices that people can take
> > with them all the time, they will be able to spot the bits of the map
> > that are missing and add them as they are driving around normally. Once
> > that happens, I'm sure we will very quickly complete all the roads that
> > people actually use, if not all the roads that exist.
>
> cGPSMapper supposedly can convert OSM files into Garmin .img files.
> Unfortunately it is not free software and on a quick glance I didn't
> see a reference to OSM on their website.
>

Give this a try:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mkgmap