Anyone else got themselves a Garmin Edge Touring? They look like a discounted 800 with reduced functionality software - focussing on navigation / touring instead of performance / fitness. I got one and am trying to figure out how to get decent routing ..
I have been downloading .img files directly to the SD card and have tried a couple of different OSM maps. A quick trip across to the next suburb generates wildly different routes according to whether I choose cycling / touring cycling / MTBing route option, and whether I use the OSMAustralia or OSM.nl maps. They often turn a 3.5km trip into a 7+kn journey - pretty much none of them resemble Google Maps' walking or riding suggestion.
So, what maps are people using? Are you just putting them on the SD card, or doing stuff with Garmin software (BaseCAmp / whatever)?
There's always Garmin's City Navigator Australia & New Zealand, which you can pay $$ to Garmin for, or ..
Shonkymaps. http://shonkylogic.net/shonkymaps/ - "The data is the 250k scale set from Geoscience Australia." I gather others are using these for other Garmin Edge units. Anyone able to give the lowdown? Will try these soon.
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ - Seems a few options here .. Generic Routable (new style), or maybe Routable Bicycle (Openfietsmap Lite). Anyone know if there is a difference between the two for Aus maps? I've used the Routable Bicycle map and it seems OK for navigating yourself around here - as long as you don't want to take the shortest distance, despite choosing the "shortest distance" routing option in the Edge Touring.
http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmin.php - downloads of Aus OSM maps per state. Comes as multiple .img map tiles - routing between tiles doesn't work? Address lists / POI not as usable as garmin.openstreetmap.nl? I just upgraded firmware and I think since the change to v2.70 I'm being told these maps don't contain routing info (or I did something else wrong, not sure..)
I have been downloading .img files directly to the SD card and have tried a couple of different OSM maps. A quick trip across to the next suburb generates wildly different routes according to whether I choose cycling / touring cycling / MTBing route option, and whether I use the OSMAustralia or OSM.nl maps. They often turn a 3.5km trip into a 7+kn journey - pretty much none of them resemble Google Maps' walking or riding suggestion.
So, what maps are people using? Are you just putting them on the SD card, or doing stuff with Garmin software (BaseCAmp / whatever)?
There's always Garmin's City Navigator Australia & New Zealand, which you can pay $$ to Garmin for, or ..
Shonkymaps. http://shonkylogic.net/shonkymaps/ - "The data is the 250k scale set from Geoscience Australia." I gather others are using these for other Garmin Edge units. Anyone able to give the lowdown? Will try these soon.
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ - Seems a few options here .. Generic Routable (new style), or maybe Routable Bicycle (Openfietsmap Lite). Anyone know if there is a difference between the two for Aus maps? I've used the Routable Bicycle map and it seems OK for navigating yourself around here - as long as you don't want to take the shortest distance, despite choosing the "shortest distance" routing option in the Edge Touring.
http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmin.php - downloads of Aus OSM maps per state. Comes as multiple .img map tiles - routing between tiles doesn't work? Address lists / POI not as usable as garmin.openstreetmap.nl? I just upgraded firmware and I think since the change to v2.70 I'm being told these maps don't contain routing info (or I did something else wrong, not sure..)