Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-06 Thread Chris-Hein Lunkhusen
Steve Ratcliffe schrieb: > Previously someone claimed that on mapsource you needed a routable > basemap to get good inter-tile routing, but that on a GPS device you > don't. As the basemap is not sent to the device that makes sense. Can I load the basemap from my Etrex to Mapsource ? Or is there

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Hartmann
Ralf Kleineisel wrote: Apollinaris Schoell wrote: I know that on my Legend Cx which does not have a UK base map I do not get very good routing across tiles. My eTrex Legend HCx without European basemap gives me better routing than mapsource does. I think this is really map dep

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> I know that on my Legend Cx which does not have a UK base map I do not >> get very good routing across tiles. My eTrex Legend HCx without European basemap gives me better routing than mapsource does. ___ mkgmap-dev mailing

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
>> > Really disabling is impossible. What is possible to flash a non > routable US Basemap which you include in firmware. To go back do the > same for the european basemap. > I once flashed my hometile of OSM. You can put maps up to around > 12Mb as Basemap. > Doing such things is however ver

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Hartmann
Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 5 Sep 2009, at 9:15 , Steve Ratcliffe wrote: Hi Mark On 05/09/09 11:44, Mark Burton wrote: Playing with my shiny new Nuvi 255, I notice that it can route across an OSM map of the UK pretty well. It can find long routes reasonably quickly. In comparison,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 5 Sep 2009, at 9:15 , Steve Ratcliffe wrote: > Hi Mark > > On 05/09/09 11:44, Mark Burton wrote: >> Playing with my shiny new Nuvi 255, I notice that it can route across >> an OSM map of the UK pretty well. It can find long routes >> reasonably quickly. In comparison, mapsource 6.13.6 often fa

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
Hi Mark On 05/09/09 11:44, Mark Burton wrote: > Playing with my shiny new Nuvi 255, I notice that it can route across > an OSM map of the UK pretty well. It can find long routes > reasonably quickly. In comparison, mapsource 6.13.6 often fails to > determine a route at all and when it does it is r

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Mapsource routing is very different from the routing on the device. I use only a Vista Hcx and it can route most of the times across multiple tiles. Mapsource typically gives up on more than 3 tiles. have built a test with only some motorways and primary where only 2-3 routes are possible. Bu

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Valentijn Sessink
> Do other people see good routing performance on the more recent Nuvis? I definately do. Routing even works (mysteriously, I guess) when routing from Garmin map to OSM map - did that recently for a Nuvi 205 with Benelux on it, to go somewhere in Germany. Routing works really well, I think - apar

[mkgmap-dev] Nuvi routing performance

2009-09-05 Thread Mark Burton
Playing with my shiny new Nuvi 255, I notice that it can route across an OSM map of the UK pretty well. It can find long routes reasonably quickly. In comparison, mapsource 6.13.6 often fails to determine a route at all and when it does it is rather slow about it. Do other people see good routing