Garmin maps (for the Netherlands)

[swanilli]

Down here, in the bottom left hand part of the world, there is a country called New Zealand. We Australians think it is a bit of a joke, but it really does exist. Unfortunately, it does not exist in the relevant map of http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php .

Any chance of having New Zealand added? The same applies to Fiji and a number of other places in the Pacific Ocean that aren’t so much of a joke.

[Lambertus]

@Pjotr Prins

Last week I did 1000 km’s by bike - in a pink Mango - riding from Zoutkamp to
Domburg, adding coastal paths in Zeeland, for one. I read you are near
Apeldoorn. One thing that caught me out (again) is there is no real north-south
cycle path route on the Veluwe. Plowing through sand with a three-wheeler is no
fun ;-).

Recumbent bikes are cool. I adore the Flevobike Versatile and are gathering information about the Greenmachine as I would like to buy one Unfortunately I live only a few km from my work and have therefore no compelling reason to spend 3.5k Euro on such a bike

With regard to my earlier question ‘What viewer do you use before rendering on
the Garmin? The mapnik viewer?’ I meant an emulator on the computer for Garmin.
Rather than uploading to the device it may be easier to toy around with ideas
on an emulator. I was wondering if there is some tool that emulates rendering
on a PC for Garmin. But I am probably asking too much.

MapSource is an offline Garmin map viewer from Garmin, there is also GPSMapedit and many more.

@swanilli

Down here, in the bottom left hand part of the world, there is a country called New Zealand. We Australians think it is a bit of a joke, but it really does exist. Unfortunately, it does not exist in the relevant map of http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php .

Any chance of having New Zealand added? The same applies to Fiji and a number of other places in the Pacific Ocean that aren’t so much of a joke.

Honestly, I have no clue what you’re talking about. If I donwload tile 63240003.img I can clearly see data from New Sealand in there. Tile 63240020.img contains most of Fiji.

There is a problem with rendering the oceans though, so you might not see the boundary between land and sea very well (it’s a thin blue line).

[swanilli]

Back on 2009-05-08 11:31:45 I raised a problem regarding the apparent disappearance of New Zealand and some Pacific Islands. It has taken a while to get back to it but here is the detail of the problem and what I have uncovered.

1. The tiles 63240003.img, 63240013.img, 63240020.img can be downloaded individually or as one of your built map sets (e.g. as I did today at <http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/13-05-2009/349694e57c5f6ade506337d569678141>).

2. No matter what I do I cannot get these to be visible in MapSource. I have updated it to the latest MapSource version, (6.15.6), tried the executable (osm_routable_MapSource.exe), tried building sets from the individual times with MapSet ToolKit and joining tiles with GMap Tool.

3. I can, however, build a gmapsupp.img with GMap Tool using the same tiles and upload it to my Garmin 300 where the maps are visible.

4. The problems I have are
   a) I cannot view the maps in MapSource and
   b) I cannot use MapSource to transfer them to the handheld.

5. I don’t have these problems with any of the adjacent tiles e.g. 63240009.img 63240010.img 63240011.img 63240012.img 63240019.img

6. The only explanation I can offer is that there is a line at about longitude E152.51, west of which detail is visible, even in tile 3240003.img, but east of which nothing is visible in MapSource. This blank space runs at least from latitude N64 to S49.

Any help would be appreciated.

[FFes]

It seems that the generation of the img files is broken. The MapSource normal executable is only 66k in size.

[Lambertus]

@FFes

It seems that the generation of the img files is broken. The MapSource normal executable is only 66k in size.

That is correct, more info here.

[NoKey]

Hello Lambertus,

I’ve been admiring and using your work on the Dutch Garmin maps for a while now and I like it a lot, so I want to thank you for your efforts.
But now I’d like to offer my assistance.
I have an Oregon 400t with the onroute bicycle map, but even with the latest update I’m none too impressed with it (I use it for navigating long distances in my quest velomobile).
So now I’d like to be able to use the openstreetmap data to generate a route on my Garmin.
I have quite a few years of experience as a C programmer, and some C++ as well, but I don’t have access to any windows or MAC OS systems. I am Linux-only computer user.
If you can point me to some info on the internal structure of the garmin map files, I could try to figure out how routable maps are made and write a tool to create them.

NoKey.

[triggerfish]

When i try to download for instance the cycle map, I get an error:

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://dev.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/garmin/nl/normal/OpenStreetMap%20Garmin%20maps%20NL(normal).exe

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for dev.openstreetmap.nl
The dnsserver returned:

Name Error: The domain name does not exist.

Can someone tell me what the problem is???

Thanks, Peter

[greencaps]

@NoKey

…So now I’d like to be able to use the openstreetmap data to generate a route on my Garmin.

To generate a route?

If you can point me to some info on the internal structure of the garmin map files, I could try to figure out how routable maps are made and write a tool to create them.

Why would you? Lambertus’ routable maps are made by mkgmap. See http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/contact

You could better join them to make it better. (for instance ist lacks good transliteration )

[JdH]

For over a week I have a problem with downloading the Garmin maps. I get an error:

Could not locate remote server. You tried to access the address http://dev.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/garmin/nl/normal/OpenStreetMap%20Garmin%20maps%20NL(normal).exe, which is currently unavailable.

Can you help out Lambertus?

Thx
JdH

[HeinIII]

@JdH

For over a week I have a problem with downloading the Garmin maps. I get an error:

Could not locate remote server. You tried to access the address http://dev.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/garmin/nl/normal/OpenStreetMap%20Garmin%20maps%20NL(normal).exe, which is currently unavailable.

Can you help out Lambertus?

Thx
JdH

Same here!

Thnx HS

[Lambertus]

Heh, well this is kind of embarrassing

It appears that the dev server has been moved to another server. The move was announced on the NL mailinglist but I failed to make the connection with the Garmin topo maps… So at some point the old server has been shutdown without me making a backup of the scripts and setting them up on the new dev server.

I’m having some problems and new features to work on for the routable maps. If that’s working alright again I will look at generating the topo maps again. Time is scarce though.

[triggerfish]

… LOL …

I do hope it gets fixed soon though. But until than, I’ll be patient

[greencaps]

@Lambertus

… the subtile extraction mechanism (which extracts the relevant data from the OSM planet file) does not include way segments that cross the border of two subtiles. There is no easy workaround for this but several people are working to overcome this major problem. So I expect this problem to be solved soon.

Is this solved by now?

[Lambertus]

@greencaps

@Lambertus

… the subtile extraction mechanism (which extracts the relevant data from the OSM planet file) does not include way segments that cross the border of two subtiles. There is no easy workaround for this but several people are working to overcome this major problem. So I expect this problem to be solved soon.

Is this solved by now?

Yes, for the routable maps this is solved.

[di_paolo]

I cannot download the garmin maps for the Netherlands (topo) om Windows Vista.The link does not work
I thoought this problem was solved Lambertus?
nice 2010!

[Lambertus]

@di paolo

I cannot download the garmin maps for the Netherlands (topo) om Windows Vista.The link does not work
I thoought this problem was solved Lambertus?
nice 2010!

No, this is not solved: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47972#p47972

[renevoorburg]

I really miss those maps for my Garmin. For me they are openstreetmap.org. Hope you find the time to restore the scripts.

Thanks a lot, René

[SveGo]

I’ve started using the maps of the netherlands on my garmin yesterday. It looks good, but theres still room for improvements ;).

One thing that’s important to me is that the ‘ijsselmeer’ is not displayed as water but just as normal ground. Is is possible to fix this? (it’s not a small lake or something… )

Keep up the good work!

[ligfietser]

Hi,

I’ve created a Garmin routable topo map of the Netherlands for cyclists, see http://sites.google.com/site/openfietsmap

(I hope Lambertus doesnt mind posting this here ;-))

[ivodeb]

First of all, thank you (1000 x) for the nice work you have done (especially for OSM). Its a very easy way to make downloads for Garmin-GPS for windows, linux and apple (thank you for the apple-part ;)). I have one suggestion : is it possible to mark the date when you made your last download? Maybe you can put that information on your Home-page?

Greetings from Belgium (Flanders ;))