Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: Contours are a pain. If you've really left this to the last minute then you're not going to want to get up the learning curve for creating your own for Garmin devices. I have a little script which can do it from

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-19 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Charlie Ferrero char...@cferrero.netwrote: Contours are a pain. If you've really left this to the last minute then you're not going to want to get up the learning curve for creating your own for Garmin devices. I have a little script which can do it from

[OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-18 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, As usual I've left this to the last minute, but wondering if anyone knows of any downloadable Garmin maps, preferably bicycle ones, for northern India (Himachal Pradesh). I'm going to try the Cloudmade ones as a backup (they're not routable or bike specific), but are there any others?

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:55 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: Hi all, As usual I've left this to the last minute, but wondering if anyone knows of any downloadable Garmin maps, preferably bicycle ones, for northern India (Himachal Pradesh). I'm going to try the Cloudmade ones as a backup (they're

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps for India? Contours?

2010-10-18 Thread Charlie Ferrero
On 18/10/2010 15:55, Steve Bennett wrote: Hi all, As usual I've left this to the last minute, but wondering if anyone knows of any downloadable Garmin maps, preferably bicycle ones, for northern India (Himachal Pradesh). I'm going to try the Cloudmade ones as a backup (they're not routable or

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-07-15 Thread Maarten Deen
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:28:36 -0700, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there an #osm-garmin IRC chat for those who specialize in making custom garmin maps? I think there is a need to combine the tallent that is collectively known about all the tools available to

[OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-07-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, Is there an #osm-garmin IRC chat for those who specialize in making custom garmin maps? I think there is a need to combine the tallent that is collectively known about all the tools available to make it. With an aim to make a better central repository for the maps. And a slippy map system

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Why do you take responsibility for postal losses? That seems super bad luck. You're running a business right not a socialist theocracy. Just put a note on the checkout that says uninsured postal delivery: £4 recorded,

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-21 Thread SteveC
interesting: http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/When-Items-Get-Lost-In-The-Post_W0QQugidZ103212591 out of interest, does RM actually compensate you then? On May 21, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Why do you take

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 May 2010 01:55, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: out of interest, does RM actually compensate you then? I don't know about RM in the UK, but Auspost in Australia hates paying up on insurance claims and they will usually track it down and find it as a result :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-20 Thread SteveC
Why do you take responsibility for postal losses? That seems super bad luck. You're running a business right not a socialist theocracy. Just put a note on the checkout that says uninsured postal delivery: £4 recorded, insured delivery: £10 or whatever. On May 18, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Andy Allan

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: For people who can't manage downloading a file, Andy provides a nice service of posting garmin maps on an SD card. http://shop.opencyclemap.org/ I don't know if he gets a tiny profit margin or not, but the prices are

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-17 Thread Andrew McCarthy
Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:48:53PM -0400, Sami Dalouche wrote: The http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php page contains only auto-routable maps, right ? My current need is to get : - routable maps for Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and NY - hiking maps for Quebec, Vermont, New

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Nice, I've added a 'downloads' section on each of Canada's provincial wiki pages, for those who dont need upto the minuite Garmin Maps. Thanks to Cloudmade.com for having the .osm files made. -i'll need to figure out how to get my listing on their Sam On 5/17/10, Andrew McCarthy

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-16 Thread john whelan
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-16 Thread 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-16 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, OSMAustralia is awesome, and it's exactly the kind of simple user-centric website that I think is useful for end-users. However, I am not sure of what are you suggesting me. How do you see uniting/combining/linking/organizing all those hundreds of small projects without creating a new fresh

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-16 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 18:53 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: snip So, if you already have all the rendering machinery in place, I would be happy to create the scripts to regularly go fetch the

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-16 Thread Lambertus
On 05/16/2010 01:57 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Yes, such a project would be useful. I suggest you get in contact with some of the people already running something similar, e.g.: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php That project has selectable maps, a mapsource installer and

[OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, I just bought a garmin GPS device and thought it would be fun to load it with OSM maps. (I am especially interested in maps that provide me with some value while hiking in New Hampshire, Vermont and NY) However, after searching a little bit, I came to the conclusion that populating a GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Yes, such a project would be useful. I suggest you get in contact with some of the people already running something similar, e.g.: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php That project has selectable maps, a mapsource installer and more. Presumably it could use some programming help to perhaps

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, In short, thats what im working on (as well as many others) OSM is still in its infancy, we have all of the pieces of the puzzle available, but not yet to the point where you can do to the main openstreetmap.org page, zoom into an area click on the 'download tab' (it doesn't exist yet) and

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, thanks for the prompt reply ! The http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php page contains only auto-routable maps, right ? My current need is to get : - routable maps for Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and NY - hiking maps for Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and NY But more generally, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: snip So, if you already have all the rendering machinery in place, I would be happy to create the scripts to regularly go fetch the maps you render and publish them onto some kind of user-centric website. That would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin Maps

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Sami Dalouche sko...@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

[OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread David Ebling
Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd also like to have OSM road, footpath, cycle path etc data on there too. The Garmin

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Ludwig
On 23/03/2008, David Ebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd also like to have OSM road,

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi David, David Ebling wrote: Hi all, just wondering if anyone can help me - I want to make a Garmin .IMG file of the whole of cumbria that includes NASA SRTM data, as the IMG files from here do: http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm but i'd also like to have OSM road, footpath, cycle path

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin maps with SRTM countours and OSM data?

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen Wing
I've tried this, and had all sorts of problems doing this myself, on my Windows machine. First of all, all the maps have to be in a single gmapsupp.img file, but can still be separate maps within that file, as long as you have combined them before converting to the Garmin format. Combining the