A while back, I posted on GeoFabrik’s repository of Open Street Map (OSM) data in shapefile format, covering mainly Europe and parts of Asia. CloudMade now has this data freely available for download as well, but not just in shapefile format, and not just Europe, but every continent (including Antarctica). Broken down by country/state, you can download:
- OSM XML extracts
- Garmin Map Files (OSM.err edition)
- Osmosis country bounding polygon
- Shapefile extracts
- Navit maps
- GPX POI
- TomTom POI
The latter two are a bit lacking in data now, to put it mildly, but presumably will grow in size with time. CloudMade is developing APIs to deliver the OSM map data in web and mobile format, but these are currently in alpha and limited to developers.
The Garmin data comes as a gmapsupp.img file, which you can copy directly to the SD/microSD card of a compatible Garmin unit; see this post for more info. The problem with Garmin map data in this format is that you are limited to having only the data embedded within that single file loaded into your GPS; you can’t combine it directly with other Garmin mapsets. And because the gmapsupp.img file can contain multiple sub-tiles, you can’t add it to the MapSource program using MapSet Toolkit; trying to do so will only make a single sub-tile visible. But there’s a way to split that gmapsupp.img file into its constituent sub-tiles, making it installable into MapSource, and I’ll cover that in tomorrow’s post.
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See Real USGS Topo Maps, Aerial Photos And Scanned Maps On Your Garmin GPS WithMoagu:
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Other posts in the GIS Tools series
- Converting E00 Vector Data To Shapefiles – A Free And Fairly Painless Approach
- Simplifying Line And Polygon Shapefiles
- Converting US Census TIGER Data Into Shapefiles For Free
- Converting Shapefiles and ArcINFO Coverages To AutoCAD DXF Format
- Converting Point Shapefiles To Text/Spreadsheet Format
- Converting Text/Spreadsheet Files To Point Shapefile Format
- An Easier Way To Convert Shapefiles to Text/Spreadsheet Format
- Converting Text/Spreadsheet Data To Line/Area Shapefiles
- Full Resolution Raster Map Combining, Subsetting And Export With The TatukGIS Viewer
- Viewing Vector Data In The TatukGIS Viewer
- The LizardTech Stand-Alone MRSID Viewer
- Converting Raster Area Images Into Polygon Shapefiles
- SAGA GIS 2.0 Released
- ILWIS GIS Is Now Open Source
- AVHRR Analysis Add-On For ILWIS
- Advanced Image Mosaicking With Regeemy
- A Free GIS Viewer (And Cheap GIS Editor) For Windows Mobile Systems
- Updates For MapWindow And Saga GIS Programs
- Updates For Two Open-Source GIS Programs
- Putting Together A Basic Linux GIS Workstation
- Free Online Courses For Open Source GIS
- GIS-Oriented Linux Distributions
- Tabular Terrain Elevation Data
- Quick Data Gridding With QuikGrid
- A Good Introduction To Geospatial Data Analysis
- Converting Digital Elevation Models To Shapefile/DXF Contours
- Fixing "Broken" Shapefiles
- A Simple DBF Editor
- Two Online Vector GIS/GPS/KML Conversion Utilities
- Another Shapefile Repair Tool
- Quantum GIS (qGIS) Version 0.10 Released
- Online Raster Map Georeferencing/Registration With Map Rectifier
- Using The Demo Version Of Global Mapper As A Raster/Vector Data Viewer
- New Stable Release Of MapWindow GIS
- The Big List Of Free Metadata Software I
- The Big List Of Free Metadata Software II
- GIS On A Stick


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