It would be great if the command line mkgmap tool that can autogenerate a windows Garmin MapSource installer, was a plugin for JOSM.
Cheers, Sam On 5/10/10, Stephen Cavilia <aili...@gmail.com> wrote: > JOSM sounds like the "some GUI tool" you want. You simply download a > rectangle of OSM data around the region you need, draw in the paths or > waypoints you want, possibly using a gps trace for a guide, save the > data layer as a .osm file, and build the garmin map off of that. > > What exactly are the features you're mapping? If there is some kind of > physical path on the ground that other people might be interested in, > you should add them to the database. There are plenty of off-road paths > and trails in OSM, not everything has to be a *road*. > > Tanveer Singh wrote: >> >> >> 2010/5/10 Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es >> <mailto:i...@sanchezortega.es>> >> >> El 10/05/2010 18:33, Tanveer Singh escribió: >> > 1. Download .osm file for a region >> > 2. Open it in some GUI tool >> > 3. Add a few tracks and waypoints >> > 4. Re-save the OSM data, with the tracks now saved as roads or >> whatever as >> > part of my .osm data >> >> I think you can either: >> >> - Use osmosis to cut a small chunk of data, edit it with JOSM, then >> commit the changes to the big .osm file with osmosis again. >> >> - Set up a local rails port. It's more complicated than osmosis + JOSM >> + >> .osm file, but you'll need that if the area is very big, you have to >> make lots of changes, or let lots of people make changes. >> >> >> >> Also, please be aware of the nature of OSM's license. If you add data >> to >> to a file or database with OSM data in it, that new data inherits >> OSM's >> license. In the end, it's easier to add that data directly to the main >> OSM server. >> >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> >> >> Actually the tracks are not roads, they are just a off road path that I >> did. So no road there. No point adding it to the osm database >> I just want to convert the area to garmin file with the track added >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
