Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details
Hello
> 1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
> contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?
This is certainly possible and I have been sent modifications that
add phone and more to the POI records. It wasn't in patch form so I've
been slow to integrate it but if you are keen to test it out, I will get it
done.
> 2) The bottom left of display (on Etrex Vista) says 'mapsource' under the
> map scale. Is this hard coded somewhere, or can it be made to say
> 'OpenStreetMap' somehow?
As others have said, this goes from 'basemap' when you are zoomed too far
out or not in the area of an installed map, through mapsource to 'overzoom'
when you are zoomed further in than the map supports. As far as I know
these words cannot be changed by an installed map.
> 3) The '.img' map extends past my bounding box
> ([bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]), is it possible to limit it to this and to
> cut ways to terminate at boundaries?
If you have an element like the following at the start of the .osm file:
then it should clip the .img file to exactly those bounds including both
line and polygon features. The 'bound' element is included by osmosis, but I
didn't realise that it wasn't used everywhere, so we probably need to
add another way of setting the bbox too. But anyway the code is there to do
it. See http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/6 for an example of how it looks.
..Steve
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Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details
>> 1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
>> contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?
>
> Don't know - interesting thought!
I dug a little last night and the spec is understood to contain a bit
field as to what each/every PIO contains (phone, address, etc). So I think
it is possible. This would be a good thing for me, as I'm making a tourist
map for local community, being able to find local resturants and get a
phone number would be cool.
>> 3) The '.img' map extends past my bounding box
>> ([bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]), is it possible to limit it to this and
>> to
>> cut ways to terminate at boundaries?
>
> How are you cutting the tiles out? I use osmcut for this, now, having
> tried osmosis previously, and this does indeed cut the ways at the
> boundary.
>
I'm just downloading via XAPI, and some ways continue past BBox. If you
have a script maybe I can customise that. It seems that us Canadians are
basing map tiles on 0.5' long and 0.25' lat boundaries. Hence
[bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]
Thanks,
Mungewell.
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Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 08:28 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > AFAIK this doesn't mean "Garmin Mapsource", it means "the source is > valid for this zoom level" rather than "you have zoomed in too far > for the source to be useful" (at which point it says "overzoom"). But > I may be very wrong. Nope, it can also say "basemap" if you are on built-in map data with a valid zoom level. Best regards Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details
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> 1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
> contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?
If you don't mind a bit of Perlery, I preprocess the .osm file to
make a cycling version of the map, essentially by rewriting the tags
before mkgmap sees them. You could do something similar by adding the
phone= value to the end of the name= value.
> 2) The bottom left of display (on Etrex Vista) says 'mapsource'
> under the
> map scale. Is this hard coded somewhere, or can it be made to say
> 'OpenStreetMap' somehow?
AFAIK this doesn't mean "Garmin Mapsource", it means "the source is
valid for this zoom level" rather than "you have zoomed in too far
for the source to be useful" (at which point it says "overzoom"). But
I may be very wrong.
cheers
Richard
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> Hi all,
> I am experimenting with making Garmin compatible maps, mkgmap and sendmap
> do just fine and I was suprised just how easy it is
I do like mkgmap...
> however I have a few comments/questions.
>
> 1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
> contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?
Don't know - interesting thought!
> 2) The bottom left of display (on Etrex Vista) says 'mapsource' under the
> map scale. Is this hard coded somewhere, or can it be made to say
> 'OpenStreetMap' somehow?
Not the right/full answer but it does display openstreetmap.org on boot,
with a progress bar as it reads it.
> 3) The '.img' map extends past my bounding box
> ([bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]), is it possible to limit it to this and to
> cut ways to terminate at boundaries?
>
> Thanks for this great tool,
> Simon
> aka. Mungewell.
How are you cutting the tiles out? I use osmcut for this, now, having
tried osmosis previously, and this does indeed cut the ways at the boundary.
If you're interested I could send you the shell file I use to generate a
fresh garmin map - currently this does Europe, some contours, & africa,
to a 470K gmapsupp.img file. This is now becoming slow to load & my
e-trex has been observed to crash on rare occasions :( so I'll be
dropping Africa after September..)
Mark
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[OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details
Hi all,
I am experimenting with making Garmin compatible maps, mkgmap and sendmap
do just fine and I was suprised just how easy it is
however I have a few comments/questions.
1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?
2) The bottom left of display (on Etrex Vista) says 'mapsource' under the
map scale. Is this hard coded somewhere, or can it be made to say
'OpenStreetMap' somehow?
3) The '.img' map extends past my bounding box
([bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]), is it possible to limit it to this and to
cut ways to terminate at boundaries?
Thanks for this great tool,
Simon
aka. Mungewell.
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