Garmin OpenStreetMap GPS Map Downloads
Garmin OpenStreetMap GPS Map Downloads
We’ve just launched a new area of our site – downloads.cloudmade.com – which hosts various maps for most countries of the world including OpenStreetMap XML, Osmosis country boundaries and Garmin GPS maps, all available for free download. We’re particularly excited about the Garmin GPS maps, which have been specially designed to highlight errors and omissions in OpenStreetMap maps by drawing attention to roads that do not have names. The maps are targeted at OpenStreetMap mappers – we hope that it will make mapping in busy urban areas a little bit easier.
All of the files at downloads.cloudmade.com are free and are provided under OpenStreetMap’s Creative-Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 License.
The maps were made using Steve Radcliffe’s Mkgmap utility which takes OSM data and outputs a Garmin file in combination with some perl scripts written by OSM’s Richard Fairhurst. So big thanks to Richard, Steve and of course to the whole OSM community. The glue on CloudMade’s side was done by Andy Allan who came up with the idea of Garmin GPS maps that highlight errors in OSM data. Andy modified some existing OSM tools, which can all be found here. Andy’s going to post some more thoughts about the process to the CloudMade dev list – so sign up to find out more.
The maps are created from the latest OSM data we have and will updated every Thursday – all of the files have bookmarkable names so you can easily get hold of teh latest maps.
Head over to downloads.cloudmade.com and see what you can do with the maps.
Garmin OpenStreetMap GPS Map DownloadsJune 26th, 2008 - Posted by Nick Black in Uncategorized | | 3 Comments
on April 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
OSM maps are the way to go – I’m looking forward to contributing hiker/trekking paths in Italy.
Many thanks for the good work!
on January 27th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Yup… these new techniques for mapping are really brilliant… and even though these had made the life easier…
on March 17th, 2010 at 2:00 am
Your blog is excellent. I m gonna bookmark, thanks. Keep working on it.