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General Category => The Knowledge => GPS => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2013, 04:20:41 pm

Title: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2013, 04:20:41 pm

http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

Simply drag your mouse over the tiles you want and, when your map is ready, download if from the website. I've just generated one for the UK, Benelux and Northern France. 1.5Gb. Very impressive.

Title: Re: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: tiermat on 08 March, 2013, 04:26:11 pm

 :thumbsup:

Brilliant! Hopefully it will be a bit more upto date than the Garmin Europe ones I have on my 705, thus will be able to tell me that I REALLY REALLY can't ride down the C-15 in Spain!

Title: Re: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: Psychler on 08 March, 2013, 04:45:15 pm

I've just done one for a ride I'm doing next weekend from my place going north, it's two tiles worth which covers about 50 miles.  I've got 48 minutes to wait for the map as I'm 8th in the queue.

I can wait that long! 

Title: Re: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: Oaky on 08 March, 2013, 04:49:19 pm

I've been using one from that site (I selected UK and Benelux tiles) since entering the world of GPS units at Christmas.   It looks good on the unit, and I've certainly found no problem areas so far in the UK on it.

I tend not to use turn-by-turn routing on the unit though, preferring to choose my own route in advance and create a track of it and follow (navigate to) that track instead.

I also loaded the talkytoaster maps of the UK (routable with contours and their OS 50k style map).  I also like the look of those, but the OS look and feel one is not as good for cycling (roads a bit thin, too much extraneous detail) as the non-OS look and feel version.  The OS look and feel version is great for walking though.

Title: Re: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: fuaran on 08 March, 2013, 04:54:03 pm

Yes, its a very useful website.
Note if you choose one of the predefined countries (eg the whole of the UK), then you can usually download the map straight away, without having to enter an email address.

Also I recommend the option for the 'Mapnik' TYP file. This makes the map style look a lot nicer, both in BaseCamp and on the device.

Title: Re: Build your own map, on-line
Post by: fhills on 09 March, 2013, 04:59:11 pm

Ditto been using ever since I entered the GPS world - can recommend the openfietsmap version as I posted a while ago - shows cycleroutes very clearly which can be particularly useful with often dodgy/non existent signage. Was impressed a while ago to see that some very very recent cycleroutes in Italy are already on there. I tend to only download tiles I need though as noted above this is slower.