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 you get a lot more control over what is rendered and how it is rendered since the processing is done locally. So here in Canada I have it displaying the street names in French in a bilingual region. If it can be linked to the Garmins then you get control over which area you want, and just the area you want, at what level of detail and which brand of coffee shops you're most interested in. Cheerio John On 15 May 2010 22:13, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 thing you could do would be to try and > unite/combine/link/organise all those "hundreds of small projects" - > rather than just start another one. > > My experience has been that for part of the world, there is a > different project somewhere producing the maps you need. For example, > in australia, it's really easy: > http://www.osmaustralia.org/downloads.php > > In the case of Garmin, complication seems to also arise from the fact > that earlier Garmins required special software (like Mapsource) to > load the maps onto the device. Newer ones (like my Oregon 550) are > trivial: simply download a .img file, and copy it into the right > directory. > > So, I think there need to be more services of this kind: websites that > regularly (eg, every week or more often) generate .img files of a > given area, in a number of styles (eg, hiking, cycling, driving...) > There is already a central registry of these kinds of sites: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download > > But it could be improved. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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