Harald Kirsch wrote: > > Am 27.01.2008 12:33 schrieb Dermot McNally: >> On 27/01/2008, Harald Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hmmmpf. It would have been nice to generally have the most recent data >>> around my area without the need to always generate all of Germany. >> How quickly do you want to see the updates? As a general rule, >> computerteddy releases updates every 1-2 weeks. > > Yes, I know. Just thought ... This is not mission critical, but it would > have been nice. > > Thanks, > Harald. > > As others have said, I do this regularly; I download uk.osm, (not living in Germany), then cut this in 2 halves using the extract-polygon.pl perl script, then do mkgmap; in fact, I use a script:
if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then echo Usage: $0 uk-latest.osm else echo Preparing Garmin version of $1: echo Extracting South.. perl extract-polygon.pl -i $1 -p uk.south.poly -o uk.south.osm echo Extracting North.. perl extract-polygon.pl -i $1 -p uk.north.poly -o uk.north.osm echo Preparing .img file.. cd ~/geo/mkgmap java -Xmx640M -jar mkgmap.jar --gmapsupp ../uk.north.osm ../uk.south.osm echo Garmin extraction Finished. echo Resultant file is in mkgmap/gmapsupp.img cd .. fi This is invoked as ./mkukgarminmap uk.xx.osm after downloading, I go make coffee, then copy gmapsupp.img to Garmin via USB & go mapping. It is possible to grab & save a small area with josm, which will compile very quickly with mkgarminmap - you can update this 4-hourly if you so desire... Mark PS watch the line-wrap on the java... line _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
