[OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

[Sami Dalouche]

This kind of project is definitely exciting !

However, I still think it is meant to be used by advanced users, and I
would first like to focus on achieving the simple use case of loading
the GPS with some data, without detailed control of the exact area nor
the rendering. (I think it is reasonable to assume that someone is going
to download the complete data for a given state even if he's only
interested in part of it... )

So, I see this tool as another part of the toolkit that supports
people's  generation of new maps, that can then be aggregated on the
user-centric website I am talking about.

Am I wrong to assume this ?

Sami

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:12 -0400, john whelan wrote:
> It might be worth looking at Maperitive, its new, in beta but does
> some very nice things like export bit map and a SVG export command is
> planned.
> 
> The really nice thing is though that since it can work with either a
> local file (save an OSM file from JOSM) or on the web linked to the
> OSM database you get a lot more control over what is rendered and how
> it is rendered since the processing is done locally.  So here in
> Canada I have it displaying the street names in French in a bilingual
> region.
> 
> If it can be linked to the Garmins then you get control over which
> area you want, and just the area you want, at what level of detail and
> which brand of coffee shops you're most interested in.
> 
> Cheerio John
> 
> On 15 May 2010 22:13, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Sami Dalouche
>         <skoobi at free.fr> wrote:
>         > What I see is hundreds of small projects or individual
>         people creating
>         
>         
>         ...
>         
>         > So, I am currently thinking of starting a complementary
>         project to OSM
>         
>         
>         See the problem here? IMHO if you want to put some effort into
>         this,
>         the best thing you could do would be to try and
>         unite/combine/link/organise all those "hundreds of small
>         projects" -
>         rather than just start another one.
>         
>         My experience has been that for part of the world, there is a
>         different project somewhere producing the maps you need. For
>         example,
>         in australia, it's really easy:
>         http://www.osmaustralia.org/downloads.php
>         
>         In the case of Garmin, complication seems to also arise from
>         the fact
>         that earlier Garmins required special software (like
>         Mapsource) to
>         load the maps onto the device. Newer ones (like my Oregon 550)
>         are
>         trivial: simply download a .img file, and copy it into the
>         right
>         directory.
>         
>         So, I think there need to be more services of this kind:
>         websites that
>         regularly (eg, every week or more often) generate .img files
>         of a
>         given area, in a number of styles (eg, hiking, cycling,
>         driving...)
>         There is already a central registry of these kinds of sites:
>         
>         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
>         
>         But it could be improved.
>         
>         Steve
>         
>         
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