Bikemap.net shows a mashup, including OSM maps. Tours can be downloaded in GPX format. It’s somewhat similar to gps-tour.info. I wonder why they didn’t use the cyclemap tiles?!?
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Bikemap.net showing bikeroutes
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
OSM-Maps for Navit
Friday, September 26th, 2008If you are looking for precompiled OSM-maps for Navit, don’t miss Dirk’s maps. Recently, Cloudmade have started to provide Navit-maps as well.
As a Navit developer, I’ll of course continue to create my own maps :) .
Height contour lines in Navit
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Since this year’ spring, I spent a lot of time in improving the rendering of Navit for cyclist’s purposes. Mainly I told Navit about minor ways such as cycleways, footways and so on, but also added POIs like shelters etc. One of the latest hacks was to experiment with height contour lines. I used srtm2osm to get an osm file with height contours. This file then has been converted to the Navit binary format by osm2navit. Here is a screenshot how it can look like:
Unfortunately I noticed that it looks nice on my desktop machine, but I got a feeling what it means to develop software for handheld devices like the N810. To make it short, the height contour lines render Navit barely usable on the N810. I’ll investigate this further. I simply need to figure out the right balance of map features vs. memory consumption.