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Sorry I have been busy, but you three have made very good arguments for the city navigator as a superior product over OSM.  I was totally overlooking the POIs as having value.

Guess I will conform with the DVD version. 

I had a conversation with Garmin a few years back requesting they make their software smarter as being able to sense which direction I am going in by reference to my destination  and recommending POIs that are out my front door instead of 200 miles out my back door.

Seems I recall a snicker. 

Hey Boyd,

What maps do you use?  I am not married to OSM, I just resent paying Garmin more money for a map that is not going to be supported in the near future.

I am not 100% married to MAC either.  My last laptop was a ThinkPad, but kinda had simular feelings about Microsoft wanting me to pay an upgrade to get a spell checker for Microsoft Word, that was when I found Open Office.  With time I got tired of waiting for the thing to boot up all the time and now it won't connect to my wireless although everything seems to be working properly, that will be a new tread on a diffrent site.

I agree with not wanting to stick my dusty fingers inside my Garmin and would preferr to have the 32GB master card that I never have to change change.  Those little cards dissapear so easily.

look forward to your response....

Thanks Guys,

One more question.....Should I just bulk buy a bunch of 1 or 2 GB cards to load individual maps on or is there a tutorial on how to put a bunch of maps on one bigger card?

  For example in the maps section there are several files that interest me and on OSM, several more that if put together would create a complete northern America map.  I suppose I could alway store them on an external HD and load as needed.  Which would you recommend?

Hummmm..........How Do you define a While?  Does OSM charge to place a business name on their map and if they don't pay up remove them and the road they are on?

I took OSM for a test drive and was pleased with it functionality including the track back feature of the Montana.  Now maybe I should play with the find function since I do not recall seeing many POI on the map.

Many thanks to Boyd and Seldom who gave insight and direction to solving my issues.

My resolve was to remove the sd card and mount it on the MAC using a USB card reader, rename it "Garmin sd".  Next I choose the zip download from OSM.  Once loaded, I opened and used Garmin Mapinstall to choose the OSM from the drop down menu.  Then I had to reselect all of the tiles as I originally selected from the OSM server and clicked continue to place the files on the card.
After completion, the card was reinserted into the Montana and Whaaaa-Laaaaa....we have maps!!

Yes I am using Basecamp.

So next question...how to update the file with changesets-latest?

Look forward to your response

Powell

OK found the real reason I downloaded RoadTrip....About this website:

The goal of this website is to advance the OpenStreetMap project by providing free Garmin maps

This website generates four different configurations of your personal free Garmin map:

* Installer for Garmin MapSource (Windows).
* Installer for Garmin RoadTrip (Mac OSX)
* Combined image for direct manual placement on the GPS device (gmapsupp.img)
* A zip file just containing all the Garmin map tiles as selected on this website. This is useful for Linux users (e.g. Qlandkarte)

I am currently in Queue for a reload for the SW USA from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

I will remove RoadTrip and save the file to my desktop if I cannot drag it onto the SD card in BootCamp.

Hi Seldom,

Your day job must be Chief Detective 

That is exactly why I installed roadtrip as it appeared the only interface between my GPSr and OSM routable maps on a MAC. 

Are you familuar with the "send maps with Mapinstall when done" prompt in the send to Device dialog box?  What does it mean?

thanks
Powell

Thanks Boyd,

I will do as you said and yes I am in USA and I did not purchase those disabled maps.
There are some questions about loading files to the Montana.
Do I want to load everything to the SD card?  Garmin says I can run 32GB.
When you are loading to the GPSr, what is the mapinstaller check box for that in the dialog box with tracks, routes, waypoints?

Perhaps my pulling the plug after 30 minutes is why my OSM file is incomplete?
look forward to you response.

Powell

Yes I think that is where I got the maps, but since it is down, hard to verify.  I am starting to warm up to the Montanna, birds eye...eeehh.  some of the tiles are green as if in the summer, but the Rubicon trail is covered in snow.  I opened Roadmap and saw OSM with TJ maps, closed it and opened BaseCamp and saw OSM as well.  I will follow your advice and uninstall RoadTrip.  Should I do a Reset on my Montana and reload?  My map choices are as follows:
enable-Worldwide DEM Basemap NR
enable-OSM world Routable(63240821), OSM World routable
disable-Digital Globe
disable-BridsEye Select EIRE
disable-BridsEye Select France
disable-BridsEye Select Kompass -Austria +East Alps
disable - USGS Quads GCNP demo

in base camp I can see all of the SouthWestern USA and Mexican Baja in OSM (this was the area I selected to download, using Denver CO as the NE corner of the selection) on the Montana I can see the Mexican Baja and maybe just San Diego County or
SoCal and I have to zoom out to 200mi to see the big US roads fill in.  Anything under 200 on the rest of the US map is a shaded relief map or general topo without lines.

When I opt to load maps to the Montana, I now check all the boxes except load mapinstaller.  I checked that box once and watched the candy stripe for about 30 minutes before pulling the plug.  I had updated the firmware on the Montana and got the warning to let the Montana restart on its own or risk damaging the unit, let it sit for about 2 hours and it never rebooted on its own, so I booted it and it has been working fine, except for my learning curve.

If you have read this far, I thank you for any help or direction you offer and look forward to your response.

Powell

Thanks Boyd,

Spoke to Garmin in my drive to work and they were stumped, but did give me direction turning on the tracks and suggested I try it again.  I think it is working as it is loading as I write this.  Did  something kinda weird when choosing the quality, the highest quality download would be 6.85MB and the high quality was 98 MB, so I chose the larger file set to download.  I want to see the raccoons looking back at me.

the reason I downloaded roadTrip is because OSM open street maps, a free route-able worldwide map set needs it to run on my Garmin and now I have maps of Mexico.  Would be great if it worked with Basecamp.  The last issue I was having is being able to see the roads I see while on my MAC in BaseCamp, but not on my GPS after a download.  I have played with turning off an on all the maps in the map tab.  I will follow up once birds eye is loaded and I check it out tommorrow.

thanks for all the replies

Powell

Hi, I recently bought a Montana 650 and seems either file transfer has gotten very difficult since using my Quest or I have became very stupid.  I have loaded both BaseCamp and RoadTrip on my MAC and attempting to put what I see on the computer screen onto the Montana 650.  All I seem to be able to transfer is waypoints, not the tracks or highlighted Rubicon trail that someone was nice enough to send me their .gpx and .gdp files of the trail.  I was stupid enough to purchase the birdseye from Garmin and can view it in BaseCamp with the highlighted trail / tracks on top which looks good, but when I went to transfer it to my Garmin, got an error for the unit id telling me to contact Garmin.  So I can live without birdseye, but it would tickle me pink to actually see the trail between waypoints on my new 600 dollar gps unit.  I have also downloaded OSM, routable open street maps which seem to work ok, but the trails are keeping me up at night.  Wide open for guidance, you can speak to me as if I were a 4yr old and I would still be grateful if it helps.
thanks
Powell