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Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
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I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!
Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.
OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.
JOSM is great.
Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.
I’ve tried putting osm maps on my Garmin with limited success, how can I go about doing that?
There's a list of ready-made providers of
gmapsupp.imgfiles.I've had the best luck with BBBike and OpenMapChest for getting pre-built map files.
Basically you have to get one of these files with all the data you want in it and then stick it on your SD card on the GPS. (The GPS should mount like a thumb drive. If you already have a
gmapsupp.imgfile on there, you might want to back it up in case things go sideways.) Some GPSes support multiplegmapsupp.imgfiles, but a lot don't. Here's a thread on merging.imgfiles.When I needed super fresh data, I'd download raw OSM data from Overpass and use mkgmap to build the
gmapsupp.img.Thanks a lot!