[Talk-ca] Garmin Map contours

Hi Simon talk-ca, I'm doing more on the canvec2osm, and trying to decide what todo about countours. Have you figured out how to make transparent contour IMG files that can be installed along with the downloaded OSM map so its usable? Or is that something that mkgmap can do (make the OSM map be

[Talk-ca] Logged Canadian Road Trip

Hi all, I live in the UK, but parents live in Calgary. This summer we went on a somewhat extended roadtrip, taking in Alberta, BC, Yukon and Alaska. I had my netbook and GPS mouse with me and logged pretty much the entire trip, checking the OSM map accuracy using Navit (on Linux). Some major

Re: [Talk-ca] Logged Canadian Road Trip

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Tim Francois wrote: Tim, My understanding is that many of the major highways in your trip were mapped from aerial imagery, so a 1 point per second gps trace is probably more accurate. Uploading your gpx tracks to OSM so others can see them as a datasource for tracing/