sphyg
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So, Lambertus.
Just wanted to say thank you sooo much for these maps. They make the GPS a whole lot better.
I am doing my part in helping update the map. I am a UPS driver, so I drive down multitudes of streets and see that a lot of them are named wrong in openstreetmap. But anyway, I keep my GPS in the truck with me and upload my traces to check for accuracy also.
Just wanted to say that I appreciate it and I want to do more. Is there a way I could help you update the routable maps so maybe we can get a steady weekly update?
Progress report:
The frontend transliterator runs under linux now too.
Thanks for offer but the newer Mkgmap versions have some serious changes in output which I need to accommodate. Just did not have the time to do so yet (busy integrating Nominatim in www.yournavigation.org). Probably this weekend.
Having a delivery job really enables you to do some serious tracklogging indeed. Isnāt every truck equipped with a company gps as well? If so, would it be possible to get an anonymized copy of available tracklogs? That would add an awful lot of tracesā¦
Cool, I hope to be able to do some tests this weekend. Do you have a source or 64bit executable somewhere for download?
sphyg
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Every DIAD board has a GPS unit in it, but I do not believe that they use tracks. They are just in there so the supervisors can see where you are at the moment, not where you have been. Even so, I donāt have the authority to grab all the track logs, if they did track them.
Ehhhā¦ It was not my intention to publish the source. And if I had that intention -maybe in the future- I first had to clean it up (undo from windows stuff and not for this project needed code and so on).
64 bit ?? I hear it nowā¦
Compiled (a world of warning messages) and linked (not a single message; just refused(well until I got the right setup)) it under an old Mandrakre distribution which surely isnāt 64 bit. Would that run on your system though ?
Further my plan was to first let you try it out before it becomes public. So I wanted to send you the executable, a runtime lib (an old mandrake c++lib. On two modern live systems the executable would not run because that needed library failed. I did not yet test with that library supplied), and for about four countries the transliteration table files and boundary .gpx files.
Well, you could ask ā¦ 
Ok, if you donāt want to release the code thatās ok, itās just that there are so many operating systems around that it might be simpler for you to provide the code instead of having to compile an executable for each os. For what itās worth, if your application works well then I can imagine that it would be really be appreciated if youād supply the source, so others can use and contribute to it as well.
Sorry that I didnāt tell you that my machine runs 64 bit (which I need because memory usage of many of the OSM applications requires more then 2GB), but afaik 32bit applications should work on a 64bit system. Weāll see soon enough when I try.
sphyg
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Still no update! :(. You must be busy. I totally understand! Hope to receive it soon!
Relax, the maps are being uploaded since yesterday evening which takes 13 hours with my current internet connection (1 Mbit uplink).
Edit: the upload is finished.
This version has some new features: better address search (autocompletion support using the MDR file) and a new MapSource installer (Mkgmapās built-in one, instead of my own). The maps now have a family id and are installed in another directory. I hope it doesnāt introduce new bugs.
Itās probably best to cleanup previously installed OpenStreetMap routable world maps first before you install the new one
sphyg
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AWESOME!!! SWEET! You are doing an awesome job! Iām still new with this, so please forgive me!
No problem, just remember weāre all volunteers and spare time is scarce for everyone 
The gmapi build script for (MacOSX) RoadTrip now also includes the mdr files that are needed to get address search working. Feedback welcome.
I am new to the Mac and to RoadTrip. I just downloaded a map from http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php today (17 November 2009) and installed it on Roadtrip 2.0.2. When you say āaddress searchā I am presuming you mean āFindā and then select āAddressā from the Find submenu.
Well, I did that but I get a popup menu saying āThis map product does not support address searchā. Is that of any help to you?
I am running OSX 10.6.2
If you want the mapās nsi info I have it.
Can you update your post with the url you received in the email? Thanks.
The roadtrip file in this directory does not have the index information added. Could it be, that it was generated before the updated gmapi script was in place? (The date on the file is 16-Nov-2009 12:24.)
Cheers.
Hmm, I downloaded it and saw the mdr directory in the file so I assumed it was in place. But I now see from my previous post that I updated the gmapibuilder script later, should have spotted that myself. Thanks for having a look at it though.
I just generated a new map and tested it. The Roadtrip files were correctly generated with the proper index files. I assume then that the previous files were indeed generated before the updated script was in place.
There may, ahem, be other problems with the address search, but not with the gmapi generation script.
Cheers.
Thanks Clinton for testing!
Iāve made a small upgrade to the toolchain and upped the āversionā by one day: A new Splitter version (Thanks Chris Miller!) now makes it possible to do recursive generation of the tiles without breaking the inter-tile routing as was the case for the last ~2 months. If you zoom in on NorthWest Europe you might notice that the tiles do not overlap anymore. If anyone still experiences inter-tile routing: please report. The same OSM data is used for 12-11-09 as was used for 11-11-09.
The next update will use the updated Splitter for America also.
Stang
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Any New Zealanders here that use these routable maps?
I have the Garmin/Navteq maps on my device for North America and Europe, but as luck would have it, I will be making a trip to New Zealand this spring (autumn in NZ, rather!). As this trip will definitely be a one-off, I am wondering if people have had much luck using these maps for finding places and routing between major points in NZ.
In Canada, the OSM maps are still very much a work in progress and canāt be relied on for routing at this point. Still fun to use and find disconnected nodes to fix, etc. Although Iām not opposed to just buying the Garmin map for NZ, especially if itāll be necessary, but I thought Iād ask some opinions of the OSM community before dropping $100 on a map that Iāll be using for 6 days.
Any info from New Zealanders or anyone who has used these maps there would be greatly appreciated.
