Dear members of the ML!
Since I'm new on the list, let me introduce myself first: my name is
Kay, I've been contributing to OSM for some time now as user kfj:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kfj
I am german, but I spend much time in the Piedmont, and this is where I
do my mapping. My italian is clumsy, so I write in english.
I have created a GPS vector map of the Piedmont. The map is intended
mainly for hiking and similar outdoor activities; I have also found it
useful for mapping. It is a synopsis of the CTRN vettoriale 1:10.000
(1991-2005) and OSM data. It's in garmin image format and runs on my
etrex vista hcx, but it should also run on other GPS units using the
same data format. The map is currently at beta stage, so I have decided
to offer it to a limited audience for evaluation. While I have processed
the whole area covered by the CTRN, I have also made a smaller map of
just the northern tip of the piemontese territory. This smaller section
may serve to establish that the map will function on your side - the
complete map weighs in at some 300MB, so the amount of traffic needed
just to find out it doesn't work for you after all would be a waste of
resources. You can find the sample map here:
http://ubuntuone.com/70ApLzr7jlglmg8BVl9ldN
and the complete map here:
http://ubuntuone.com/6wok0LEk30quYb3ontLs8R
These files are zip-compressed folders containing the map (in garmin.img
format; I trust you know what to do with such a file) plus a README and
some files picked from the CTRN data.
If you just want to know more about the technicalities of the map, you
can download the README file separately from here:
http://ubuntuone.com/0An1JJJwgsrqtm6YleYnBy
I release the maps under CC-BY-NC-SA license, see
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
I'd appreciate comments - especially concerning the usability on various
GPS devices and also of grave problems with the maps, but I can't
promise to fix reported bugs as my resources are limited.
The technical details can be found in the README accompanying the map.
So far I haven't published my own tool chain - a set of shell scripts
and the various styles and TYP file. I intend to do so eventually, to
allow interested parties to emulate and improve my work, but I'd prefer
to have some feedback first.
This mail was initially sent to talk-it-piemonte, where it was suggested
that it should be posted to talk-it as well.
I've had the first reports coming in already, and one piece of good news
is that the map runs on the c62 as well. A word of caution: if you
install the full map after the sample map, you'll have to delete the
sample. Both together won't work, I assume this is because I used the
same product ID for both. On the etrex which can't handle multiple maps
this isn't an issue. Eventually the sample map will be taken offline.
Kay F. Jahnke
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