More than happy with that Bertrand, I will give it a go

many thanks
Wayne

Got it all to work, thx again

Wayne

:clap:

OSM for Laos and Cambodia
 

Quite impressed with the detail on the mapping I got from them, plotting routes and putting in waypoints using basecamp is good. Should all be good to go when I get home and get my Montana
I just used the Generic Routable, has any one used the Generic Routable (new style) and is it much better

Wayne

An alternative
 

Looking around at my broad interest in "where maps originate" I came across this method of downloading OSM:
Free maps for Garmin from OpenStreetMap
While it is fundamentally based on OSM it also incorporates topographical data from other sources, as described in the website.

Not all of the currently available OSM is in this site, because it seems to be based on a version of crowd-funding to get a map installed into the site:
Free maps for Garmin from OpenStreetMap - More maps

I suppose it doesn't cost a lot and the website owner is doing some of the computer based work that is otherwise necessary.

And another one
 

Just like the buses in the UK, it seems that this type of software arrives in pairs.
Here's another website that provides an alternative access to OSM maps and these are also complete with overlaid contours, as an option.
Home (talkytoaster.homeip.net)

Based in the UK, the website owner naturally specialises in maps for the UK et al:
FREE British Isles and Ireland Maps Home (talkytoaster)
but offers to provide OSM maps for elsewhere in the world, at a price http://talkytoaster.info/payment-faq.htm

Maybe there is a market for providing OSM maps to those who don't want to do it for themselves?

Thanks a lot for information
Gonna use it!

Over owning a montana for 2 years and having 2 of them, I have never been able to update the maps. Now due to this guide and some words of others I have managed to do it myself...:thumbup1::thumbup1::mchappy::clap:

I have just joined the queue on OSM mapping for the map of Europe, although because of the size I had to do it in 3 parts :thumb down:

Is there anyway to join all the files together under one heading i.e. Put in the same Garmin folder so I can read as one? Or do I have to name them North, Central and South (for example) and keep them as individuals?

Wayne

The problem is that any OSM that is downloaded after manual tile selection will have the same software ID number, and at least on the Garmin, they will have the same generic name.
Then if they are all live at the same time and happen to have common tiles, any routing through these common areas may be suspect. Similar things can happen if a Garmin map and an OSM are both live together. Also daid that can happen even if they are just installed in the Garmin folder even if not livened up Best to keep them separate by moving them to a folder called say "standby maps" and move them into the Garmin folder as required and so liven up one at a time.

Yes, there is software that will join maps together and eliminate common tiles, but when I tried it, it wasn't too bad on a couple of small countries, but just crashed trying to join east europe to central europe.

Why?
The maps are updated on about a weekly basis; just download and use the bits you want to use as and when you want to use them.

OTOH, you could be travelling in the whole of Europe in less than a week, before the next update is issued.

Wayne
Check your pm :scooter: for solutions but in a nutshell- you can join them together- stitching them up is an art form :smartass:, you can overcome the osm naming issue too.


membership has its privileges

Some of the files for areas you would need to cover in just a few weeks get to be a bit large - couple of Gig - for trying to download from the roadside coffee shop. Even central and south America is nearly 1 G and anyway, it is useful to have it all loaded well before you go so you can do some familiarising and route planning.
But yes, still best to download a new file just before you go and keep the old one on your computer in case the new file is missing tiles or whatever.

Yes, renaming should work, but it doesn't always stick, but perhaps that is just because I had Europe, Americas and Australia maps on there at the same time and Garmin GPS wouldn't show the renames. Doesn't matter because they are different parts of the world so there is no ambiguity or conflict. Just makes the manage maps page look untidy. What would be nice is if OSM.nl could assign a random large number to all manually-selected maps because then renaming would probably be more reliable.

I did originally download the predefined countries but found that because the various countries required lots of tiles around the boundary that were also included in the maps for all those countries, there was conflict at times which resulted in there being NO detail in some of the shared border tiles. I still have them on the SD card, but in another folder just in case.

Probably not....but i might want to use it all in Basecamp to look at routes and plot areas of interest along those routes:thumbup1:

Cheers
Wayne

Whatever does it for you; there's a boat load of route planning software out there nowadays to do that without mucking about with OSM.

Personally, I much prefer paper maps.

But, we are getting :offtopic: from this particular thread.
There is a thread, linked below, which covers my way of planning routes:-
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...st-route-81485
The first couple of pages covers my philosophy.