[OSM-talk] OSM on Ubuntu UK podcast

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM,  <list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:52:27 +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
> wrote:
>
>>Another podcast that 80n and I did at LugRadio live, this time a really
>>great quality audio from Ubuntu UK podcast.
>>
>>http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/07/31/s01e11-blowin-in-the-wind/
>
> One of you talks of a means of uploading a vector? map to Garmins.
> This is just the thing I need in order to locate areas on my travels
> which aren't mapped yet.
>
> Is there a "numpty's how to" for getting, say, the SE of England onto
> a Garmin 76csx?
>
> Or is this more for the newbies list?

There's a page on the wiki devoted to this[1], someone produces a map
for the UK[2] already but it looks like it isn't as frequently updated
as you might like, I certainly appreciate getting daily changes when
I'm mapping a given area over a period of a few days.

I generate my own maps of Iceland daily and publish them online[3] and
you could do something similar if you'd like, just get the OSM file
for the UK from download.geofabrik.de and turn it into an .img file
using mkgmap.

You can see it all working in this flickr set [4] which shows a 60csx,
it's equivalent to your 76csx except for the casing.

1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin
2. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
3. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Garmin_map_of_Iceland
4. http://flickr.com/photos/avarab/sets/72157606321727527/