Fangamon Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 OpenStreetMap Data Extracts http://download.geofabrik.de/ Sub-Region Quick Links .osm.pbf .shp.zip .osm.bz2 Africa [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] Antarctica [.osm.pbf] [.shp.zip] [.osm.bz2] Asia [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] Australia and Oceania [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] Central America [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] Europe [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] North America [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] South America [.osm.pbf] [.osm.bz2] Quote Link to comment
+Timpat Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Thanks for mentioning this source. It made me look into the site and found I can download NY State data (for example) as shapefiles (in a zip file). I found many trails are included for preserves we've hiked in. I work in GIS and can query out data I want to then create my custom Garmin .img of hiking trails using MapEdit and Img2gps. Quote Link to comment
nhfours Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 If you want to use OSM data in a Garmin context (GPSr or Mapsource/Basecamp) check out Free maps for Garmin brand GPS devices. No contour lines, but hiking trails are shown. These maps are optimized for car navigation. Users in Europe should look at either OSM-kowoma-Freizeitkarte - beta 2 or Garminkarten (Google Translate will help, but basically choose the region you want and double-click on the downloaded executable). Both sites use OSM data rendered in a more outdoors-friendly format. Quote Link to comment
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