Sunday 13th January 2008
OSM Cycle Map on my GPS
Sound familiar? Not quite. A year ago I posted about putting an OSM map of putney on my GPS. Six months ago I started doing the whole bike map thing, so now there’s significant amounts of cycle routes in the database - several thousand kilometres’ worth. And today, thanks to some work by Richard Fairhurst, I get to combine the two:
OpenStreetMap seriously kicks ass. I don’t know of anywhere else that you can get cycle-customised garmin maps, for free. Whenever anyone wonders why we bother with OpenStreetMap, HERE’S YOUR ANSWER. I’ll probably start distributing the gmapsupp.img files for anyone who’s interested. Thanks to Richard, Steve Radcliffe, Computerteddy and of course everyone who’s ever contributed cycle data to the project.
Oh, and it’s a serious pain in the ass trying to get good photos of a GPS - you should have seen the hassle I went through to get this looking better than the last one!
Great move! Using the data will become even more practical now.
Comment by Gregory Williams — 14/1/2008 @ 10:12 am
This is a great step, however I’m interested in TrekBuddy maps. Does anyone know who runs http://osm.bandnet.org/browse/? I’d like to customise it a bit. Or maybe even extend it to cover TrekBuddy atlases and larger areas. I can’t even get the whole of Edinburgh into one map.
Comment by Shaun McDonald — 15/1/2008 @ 9:18 am
Where do we download the OSM cycle map files? I would like to transfer it to my Garmin GPS.
On a separate note, the new Garmin 705s look like they may only take .gsx files, instead of .img files. I don’t know if this stops me from using the OSM.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Barry.
Comment by Barry Thompson — 2/4/2008 @ 5:36 pm
Are these maps routeable? Can I use the autorouting with them?
Thanks and regards,
Andreas
Comment by Andreas Wolff — 21/5/2008 @ 9:52 am