Garmin and Open Street Map
 

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I have TOPO GB maps and have found them fine for route planning in Mapsource but for a trip to Europe I baulked at the price of Euro maps. Downloaded a set of OSM and now have full route planning in Mapsource with easy transfer to the device, for free!. I too had routing hitches but it did it with the Garmin mapping sometimes too!

Garmin just informed me that they don't gone supply update DVD's any more.
So all those good, expensive and reliable gadgets will be problem waste on the future. :censored:

Yes, guys and girls, collaboration does it. Remember, these free routable maps have to be created and maintained by somebody: you and me and every GPS user. So, do the right thing and if you ride a road that isn't in the OSM map head to OSM.org and put it in. You can also fix those routing errors yourself. If you don't, who else will?

i must be stupid instruction 5 states

Enter your email address and click 'Build my maps' or download each tile separately by clicking it's link


where do you enter your email address???????

I recently bought a Garmin, was useless, so had a refund, now back to using printed maps. Today I get an email from them telling me my free update period is about to expire. So they dont talk to one another, couldn't get the update to unlock. One of the many reasons for its return.
I could only get it to navigate to somewhere where I had already been as unless I could input the waypoint co-ordinates it never seemed to know where anywhere was, unless it was a big city.

I use a 550 zumo with map source and its superb i did have to take a while to learn hpw to use it, but thats me, and now although I still use normal maps i would not be with out it.

there should be a box on the left but its not there doh having read this page ive managed to download it run it install it and use it without the email how is that it oh i love computers...


nwcaching.co.uk • View topic - How To : Get routable Garmin maps from OSM for free!

thought id be greedy and get another map email address now wanted oh joy

Apparently all I needed to do to get it working was to move house, get a new computer and not to use it in France.

Weird use mine mostly in france and its perfect not moved house yet but would if its out of uk and can take the garmin lol

Ok try this.

All in France

Plan a route from Le Gros Chataignier to Pussy

When you have done that add in Le Frene, 79200 Viennay as a Via point.
I have given you the post code to help as it is an address, the rest are villages.
note Le Gros Chataignier is in Department Deux sevres near L'Absie.
Pussy is in the east of France in Savoie near Albertville
If you need help go onto Viamichelin.com or google maps or tomtom home.

Let me know how long it took.

3-4 mins... Its 701km (by my prefs). The bit to Viennay is a there and back bit from Parthenay.

Routed using the France Topo maps... I'm sure you would prefer this set of maps the the CN-EU series:smartass:

John

I did have to use google maps for a little help including that took me about 10 minutes, I must say it did take me a while to get my head around how it works

I simply could not do it on the nuivi 765 with the 3.54Gb 2010 euro maps.

It would not find ANY of those destinations.

Le Frene I did locate by accident. Garmin had it misspelled as Le Fresne I don't know about the others as I could never get it to locate them at all. :(

A friend of mine has a Tom Tom and all of those destinations work as I expected...

there you go - 6mins
733 Kms
Happy riding!

What model garmin did you use? and, how did you get the route onto a computer?

You wont find them with the City Navigator Europe maps. They aint there!
Garmin have a policy of dropping duplicate names in the CNEU maps.
If you use Topo V2 maps they are routable

John

I use a 278C
From your info, I created a route using Garmin's Mapsource with CityNav (CN) and you upload to the gps using mapsource too.

If you cannot find a town etc in mapsource or the garmin, you use GE or a paper map to find the coords, create waypoints then let CN calculate the route - depending on your choices/avoids etc

The trouble is Bert, that they are selling something not fit for purpose.
If you go back to the CN Europe V8, you can do the routing he wants. With 2009 and newer, yer buggered. They dropped the dup place names.

I have 2008 - a bit old, and all versions since. The only one I can find my hamlet on is V2 Topo. Not good enough and if Garmin don't sort this soon, they will loose more and more users.
You, me and lots of others here can "get round it", but why the hell should we!?

John

Thanks for understanding my problem with it. But it goes deeper than just dropping duplicate place names. My home address is misspelt and as a result you can't find it. I think there are duplicate 'le gros chaitagniers' but there is only one 'Pussy' (don't laugh).

On the road, I would not have access to a computer to route plan and download, what the box can't do I can't do.

Not only not 'fit for purpose' but does not do what is implied on the box. Worse the map updates cost £80 another £30 for UK traffic cameras. + another £20 for France cameras, they do a deal for all Europe for £50 .
Tom Tom will supply map update on sdhc for less and all Europe traffic cameras are £20.
For the next trip I am buying a paper map for Spain and Italy at around £8 a piece.