[OSM-talk] Create custom map from OSM data

[Sam Vekemans]

It would be great if the command line mkgmap tool that can
autogenerate a windows Garmin MapSource installer, was a plugin for
JOSM.

Cheers,
Sam

On 5/10/10, Stephen Cavilia <ailivac at gmail.com> wrote:
> JOSM sounds like the "some GUI tool" you want. You simply download a
> rectangle of OSM data around the region you need, draw in the paths or
> waypoints you want, possibly using a gps trace for a guide, save the
> data layer as a .osm file, and build the garmin map off of that.
>
> What exactly are the features you're mapping? If there is some kind of
> physical path on the ground that other people might be interested in,
> you should add them to the database. There are plenty of off-road paths
> and trails in OSM, not everything has to be a *road*.
>
> Tanveer Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2010/5/10 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es
>> <mailto:ivan at sanchezortega.es>>
>>
>>     El 10/05/2010 18:33, Tanveer Singh escribió:
>>     > 1. Download .osm file for a region
>>     > 2. Open it in some GUI tool
>>     > 3. Add a few tracks and waypoints
>>     > 4. Re-save the OSM data, with the tracks now saved as roads or
>>     whatever as
>>     > part of my .osm data
>>
>>     I think you can either:
>>
>>     - Use osmosis to cut a small chunk of data, edit it with JOSM, then
>>     commit the changes to the big .osm file with osmosis again.
>>
>>     - Set up a local rails port. It's more complicated than osmosis + JOSM
>> +
>>     .osm file, but you'll need that if the area is very big, you have to
>>     make lots of changes, or let lots of people make changes.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Also, please be aware of the nature of OSM's license. If you add data
>> to
>>     to a file or database with OSM data in it, that new data inherits
>> OSM's
>>     license. In the end, it's easier to add that data directly to the main
>>     OSM server.
>>
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     --
>>
>>
>> Actually the tracks are not roads, they are just a off road path that I
>> did. So no road there. No point adding it to the osm database
>> I just want to convert the area to garmin file with the track added
>>
>>
>>
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