creating garmin image file with opencyclemap.org rendering

squiz · 2010-04-14T09:48:27.000Z

I am trying to build a garmin image file with opencyclemaps.org rendering and have a few questions. Please forgive any naive questions, as I am rather new to all this.

The instructions given at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Cycle_map apparently create something “Roughly comparable with OpenCycleMap”. Why only roughly? Is it possible to reproduce the maps as shown on opencyclemap.org exactly?

When I run
java -jar /mkgmap-r1632/mkgmap.jar --style-file=cyclemap --list-styles
from a directory containing cyclemap.TYP, I get the following error:
“Could not list style file cyclemap”

Why can’t I see the cyclemap styles? What am I doing wrong here?

I would like to create a map for Southern Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. Are there any tools or procedures for splitting the country osm files according to regions? I just found that there is a file specifically for the alps at geofabrik, so maybe I don’t need to know how to do this now, but if anyone can let me know how this is done, then I would appreciate it.

Are there any instructions for getting and including the topography data, as mentioned in the article above?

Vclaw · 2010-04-14T11:30:47.000Z

squiz:

When I run
java -jar /mkgmap-r1632/mkgmap.jar --style-file=cyclemap --list-styles
from a directory containing cyclemap.TYP, I get the following error:
“Could not list style file cyclemap”

Why can’t I see the cyclemap styles? What am I doing wrong here?

That article is a bit confusing. The TYP file is not the mkgmap style file. The style file is this directory here: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/garmincyclemap/network/cyclemap/
So download all of that, then mkgmap should find it.

squiz:

I would like to create a map for Southern Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. Are there any tools or procedures for splitting the country osm files according to regions? I just found that there is a file specifically for the alps at geofabrik, so maybe I don’t need to know how to do this now, but if anyone can let me know how this is done, then I would appreciate it.

Use tile splitter to split up an osm file into smaller pieces. http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/tile-splitter

squiz · 2010-04-22T10:28:20.000Z

Thanks for your reply.
Regarding point 1, it seems that the rendering styles for opencyclemap.org are not freely available. Fair enough, I suppose, although with a name like opencyclemap, you would be forgiven for assuming it would be.

Regarding point 2, I noticed that shortly after having posted. My mistake.

Regarding point 3, splitter seems to split an osm file into more manageable chunks. I can’t work out how to use it to select an area to be written into a smaller osm file. Can this tool do this?

Regarding point 4, groundtruth looks promising.

Vclaw · 2010-04-22T16:32:52.000Z

squiz:

Regarding point 3, splitter seems to split an osm file into more manageable chunks. I can’t work out how to use it to select an area to be written into a smaller osm file. Can this tool do this?

No, I don’t thnk that’s possible with splitter. You can do that with Osmosis: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis
It can extract the area within a bounding box or a polygon from an osm file. There’s some examples on that wiki page.
You can then split this into smaller pieces with splitter if you want.

csdf · 2010-04-22T17:33:41.000Z

squiz:

Regarding point 3, splitter seems to split an osm file into more manageable chunks. I can’t work out how to use it to select an area to be written into a smaller osm file. Can this tool do this?

Splitter can take a file as input that defines the bounding boxes of the different tiles you want. Is this what you meant?