Topographic OSM map of Macedonia for Garmin devices

[angelovski]

Hi,

I am from Bitola, and i own Garmin Dakota 20 from recently. Looking for Topo maps from Macedonia, i downloaded (i think) ivank’s topo map from http://osm-mkd.vidi.mk/maps/01-09-2009/gmapsupp.img , and found it realy good for Pedestrian mode, has some great details for terrain, and i want to thank you for making a map like that. As far as Automotive mode, i use AdriaRoute for now, though it got me lost in Ohrid streets when i tried to drive to Plaosnik.

I am now downloading another version of the Topt i want to try, from http://www.ggbs.org/index.php/Maps.html , from Enif. That map seems to be latest, and i will give it a try.

Anyway, i just want to thank you guys, and if i could be of any help to you i will be glad. I am a gadget freak, work as a developer, and love outdoors (rock climbing and trekking), and i got very interested in outdoor GPS. I will (when have times) try to learn how to contribute to OSM, and hopefully you could help me when i stuck in the process.

I want to know if you are familiar with the topo maps from Katastar (http://www.katastar.gov.mk/website/servistopokartinov/), and how we could get their data into OSM topos.

Thanks,
Daniel

[Enif]

Hello Daniel,

… and welcome to the OSM users:Macedonia forum!!! I am happy to see a “new face” here - it has been rather quiet on the forum lately.

I hope that you’ll find the OSM Garmin maps useful on your Dakota 20. But you will find out quickly that there is still a lot of mapping to be done in Macedonia, especially outside the cities and the main roads. So if you travel around in Macedonia, make sure to save the track information of where you have travelled, and then upload it into OSM. If you are like the rest of us, you will enjoy doing your own mapping from your collected tracks, either with the OSM online editor (Potlatch) or using the offline JOSM editor. If you have any questions, the OSM forum here is the right place to get help…

Thanks a lot for the Katastar link!! This is great, I did not know about it yet. The maps seem to be based on scanned images of paper maps and aerial photos (probably from around the 1970ies?), so I doubt that the information of these maps could be transferred in any automatic way (leaving aside any copyright issue, which would have to be addressed as well). But even to have access to these maps for visual comparison and reference when doing manual edits is very useful.

Поздрав, Heinz

[dejanacko]

@angelovski

Hi,

I am from Bitola, and i own Garmin Dakota 20 from recently. Looking for Topo maps from Macedonia, i downloaded (i think) ivank’s topo map from http://osm-mkd.vidi.mk/maps/01-09-2009/gmapsupp.img , and found it realy good for Pedestrian mode, has some great details for terrain, and i want to thank you for making a map like that. As far as Automotive mode, i use AdriaRoute for now, though it got me lost in Ohrid streets when i tried to drive to Plaosnik.

I am now downloading another version of the Topt i want to try, from http://www.ggbs.org/index.php/Maps.html , from Enif. That map seems to be latest, and i will give it a try.

Anyway, i just want to thank you guys, and if i could be of any help to you i will be glad. I am a gadget freak, work as a developer, and love outdoors (rock climbing and trekking), and i got very interested in outdoor GPS. I will (when have times) try to learn how to contribute to OSM, and hopefully you could help me when i stuck in the process.

I want to know if you are familiar with the topo maps from Katastar (http://www.katastar.gov.mk/website/servistopokartinov/), and how we could get their data into OSM topos.

Thanks,
Daniel

Daniel, jas sum od PP i isto imam Dakota 20. Kako moze da iskontaktirame, ako moze da mi objasnis nesto poveke vo vrska so kartite i vnesuvanje. pozz