[OSM-talk] Cycleway VS Track

2008-08-03 Thread Florian Steiper
Hello, my first post here :) for a small introduction, I bought a nüvi a few weeks ago, got addicted, found out about openstreetmap, needed a device that could record traces and now own a Vista Hcx and am happy with it.. Now I am cycling around the area here and am trying to improve the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on Ubuntu UK podcast

2008-08-04 Thread Florian Steiper
Hello, I know the answer ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin This is the description how to make your own maps for the garmins http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download Here are ready to use maps for the garmin units. Simply copy the

Re: [OSM-talk] Mantigue island swallowed by the sea

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Steiper
Hello Rainerr, maybe the tiles haven't been updated yet ? it takes around a week until changes that you make will make it to the slippy map. As much as I understood the changes are rendered every thursday. ciao Florian rainerr wrote: Hi, In case you don't know Mantigue, it's a small

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycleway VS Track

2008-08-07 Thread Florian Steiper
Hello, To warm up the topic again... I made one relation for a few of the cycle routes of the town Nidderau. Those are somehow official routes with signs along the way that show a little bicycle, so you know where to turn and from time to time bigger signs that show the directions to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Recommended GPS for logs for OSM *and* for vehicle - is there such a beast?

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Steiper
Hello, As much as I know the Garmin navigation units can load the OpenStreetMap data that is produced by mkgmap. sadly only the top model in the Nüvi series offers tracking. However, the motorbike units (zumo) do offer tracking, are water (splash) proof and also allow navigation by voice. They