I noticed that my Garmin was missing a few footpaths while i was walking around Maidenhead the other week so decided to add them onto the map. I’d forgotten how nice it is to spend some time mapping. Must get out more and do more mapping.

Things that have changed over the last 7 years.

My i5 with SSD can process the Great Britain map into a Garmin map in about 40 minutes now. Wow. It used to take several hours.

Editing via the open street map website is quick and easy, a much nicer experience than downloading partial maps and editing them in JOSM.

TODO

Must spend some time on my styles file, maybe try and make it more OS like.

HELPME

Does anyone know what/why i get “unnamed/other” buildings all over my Garmin map?

After 2.5 hours of downloading, installing, configuring and building i created my first gmapsupp.img file. :-) I used the Great Britain osm download and the cycle map rule set which i tweeked a little to include the round Berkshire cycle route. The BCR seems to have a missing tag (lcn=*) which meant that it was not high lighted. I'm very impressed with the splitter and mkgmap which run very quickly given the whole Great Britain OSM file is 2.5GB. It took about 20-25 minutes to build on a core 2 duo 1.8GHz with 2GB ram.

I've also noticed that someone has been busy mapping in Swinley Forest (South of Bracknell, GB) As this is where i MTB the effort that has gone into the single track routes is very appreciated.

I'm currenly looking for somewhere i can host the resultant .img so others can make use of it. I've noticed on the Garmin Download page that the GB cycle map hasn't been rebuilt for a while.

Just add my local estate - Forest Park (north). Spent about 1 hour out with the GPS and camera and about 1 and a half hours adding the data into OSM.

Next Tasks
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1) Severnake Park - footpaths / pond / car park
2) The Warren
3) Martins Herron
4) Cycleways around Martins Herron

Made my first edit last night. :-) I only added the location of my local post box, something simple for a first edit. This morning i can see the edit on the map. Will try and add my street next.