Thanks for hosting this great website. I listed my routable OSM-based maps on it, and am getting multiple downloads from GPSFileDepot every day.
Could I request you to update your country list or tell me how to do it?
Of the 157 countries covered by my maps, I could tag less than half of them because 84 of my countries are missing. Even major countries like Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Turkey, Malaysia and Nigeria are missing. These are the missing countries covered by my maps. Could you please add them to your country list so I can link to them? That will help a lot of people.
Andorra (ad)
Angola (ao)
Armenia (am)
Austria (at)
Azerbaijan (az)
Bahrain (bh)
Bangladesh (bd)
Belgium (be)
Benin (bj)
Bhutan (bt)
Bolivia (bo)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (ba)
Brunei (bn)
Bulgaria (bg)
Burkina Faso (bf)
Cambodia (kh)
Cameroon (cm)
Central African Republic (cf)
Chad (td)
Congo Democratic Republic (cd)
Congo Republic (cg)
Croatia (hr)
Cyprus (cy)
Djibouti (dj)
Ecuador (ec)
Equatorial Guinea (gq)
Eritrea (er)
Estonia (ee)
Gabon (ga)
Georgia (ge)
Ghana (gh)
Guernsey-Jersey (gg)
Guinea (gn)
Guinea-Bissau (gw)
Guyana (gy)
Hungary (hu)
Isle of Man (im)
Ivory Coast (ci)
Jordan (jo)
Kazakhstan (kz)
Kosovo (xk)
Kyrgyzstan (kg)
Laos (la)
Latvia (lv)
Lebanon (lb)
Liberia (lr)
Liechtenstein (li)
Lithuania (lt)
Luxembourg (lu)
Macedonia (mk)
Madagascar (mg)
Malaysia (my)
Mali (ml)
Malta (mt)
Mauritania (mr)
Moldova (md)
Monaco (mc)
Mongolia (mn)
Montenegro (me)
Myanmar (mm)
Nepal (np)
Niger (ne)
Nigeria (ng)
Oman (om)
Philippines (ph)
Portugal (pt)
Qatar (qa)
Romania (ro)
Senegal and Gambia (sn)
Serbia (rs)
Singapore (sg)
Slovakia (sk)
Slovenia (si)
Somalia (so)
South Sudan (ss)
Sri Lanka (lk)
Sudan (sd)
Syria (sy)
Timor-Leste (tl)
Togo (tg)
Turkey (tr)
UAE (ae)
Vietnam (vn)
Yemen (ye)
Thank you in advance!
Good idea, but I wouldn't expect much to happen unfortunately. I have no access to that section of the website, I'm only a moderator for the forums. Dan (the site owner) would have to do that himself, and he doesn't stop by much anymore. Sorry, I haven't even been able to contact him myself for awhile....
When he reappears, I volunteer to help him to update the list. It's such an easy thing to do when you have edit rights to the source file. It's the key to the whole website. Good on you to moderate the forums, thank you.
Thanks, and I'm sure he will appreciate it. Just "don't hold your breath" because that might take years. It's sad, having been around for so many years and remembering the great discussions we had about making Garmin maps. But those days are gone. And I mean *long* gone. What you see in the forums is very different from my view, where there are endless spam posts (some of which are very offensive) practically every day that I delete. Then they're back again the next morning, and having moderated at a number of sites, including one of the biggest forums on the net, I can say that this forum software is - hands down - the absolute worst when it comes to moderator tools.
But "it is what it is".... right? I try not to think about it, just ban the bad guys and move on. It's nice to see an actual post about maps though. It's no exaggeration to say I could count those annually on my fingers without even taking off my shoes.
I am in my "post Garmin" phase and loving it, with my web app at boydsmaps, featuring 3tb of free maps, no ads and no registration. I went in that direction because Garmin just doesn't come close to supporting the kind of maps I want to make and I don't want to limit myself to the kind of person who is willing to jump through all the hoops to install maps on a Garmin device. My own maps are only a click away!
Garmin is the past. I am interested in today... and tomorrow. That future does not belong to Garmin and their expensive proprietary devices or closed map format.
But - don't get me wrong - good on you for making maps and posting them here! I was deep into that at one time and it's an experience that I will never regret!
(JMHO, of course and certainly not "site policy" :D )