Re: [talk-au] routable garmin maps

2010-03-28 Thread edodd
> Hi. > > On 28 March 2010 17:04, wrote: > >> I find that the use of NHA17; NHA20; NHA1 and NHA8 as route designations >> is quite silly. >> No road sign says NH anything. >> > > I'm inclined to agree here. I understand why it was decided that way > originally, but it is slightly confusing that th

Re: [talk-au] routable garmin maps

2010-03-28 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. On 28 March 2010 17:04, wrote: > I find that the use of NHA17; NHA20; NHA1 and NHA8 as route designations > is quite silly. > No road sign says NH anything. > I'm inclined to agree here. I understand why it was decided that way originally, but it is slightly confusing that the GPS uses a di

Re: [talk-au] routable garmin maps

2010-03-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 March 2010 16:04, wrote: > I find that the use of NHA17; NHA20; NHA1 and NHA8 as route designations > is quite silly. I think A17, A1 and A8 is correct, and instead use network=NH > No road sign says NH anything. No, but they do show the word 'NATIONAL' on them > we have a good schema n

[talk-au] routable garmin maps

2010-03-27 Thread edodd
made it safely into adelaide with the routable garmin maps from http://www.osmaustralia.org/garminroute.php. Must check one point where the advice was to cross over the median strip and use the wrong side of the road. Small hiccup in an inability to set a route over the Vic/SA border, but can navig

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps

2009-10-15 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: > Thanks, I still don't know what I was doing wrong but I can now show > this to some people at work who are showing a lot of interest, in > openstreepmap, hence my other questions about navit and gosmore. Using routable maps to suggest routes across town is a great way o

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Hocking
Ok - I've worked out my problem. I was still using the original link which now points to the non routable img files. I've now adjusted my bookmarks to point to the rouitable ones. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstre

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Hocking
Thanks John, Excellent - it now works. You were right, Everytime I downloaded the current zip file, I ended up with a 13.6MB zip file and subsequently a 14MB img file. I've now saved it to a completely different locations and now I have a 18.5MB zip file and a subsequent 24.7 MB img file that is

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps for NSW

2009-10-15 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: > A while back I could download the zip file for NSW from osmaustralia.org > , unzip it rename the img file to gmapsupp.img, > copy it onto the Garmin Nuvi and I would have routable osm maps on the > Garmin, > > Recently when I do this the maps are n

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps for NSW

2009-10-15 Thread Liz
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: > PS - is navit useful yet (maybe with some decent voice commands). navit has funny long distance routing. when we have the osm2navit sorted out - our trouble may be solved with the newest svn version I'll start talking with them about our routing problems

[talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps for NSW

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Hocking
A while back I could download the zip file for NSW from osmaustralia.org, unzip it rename the img file to gmapsupp.img, copy it onto the Garmin Nuvi and I would have routable osm maps on the Garmin, Recently when I do this the maps are not routable at all and when you try to set a route, it just s