Map Sharing

I would have thought it would be a good idea to share maps but noone has suggested it yet.

Has anyone got a torrent site or FTP site we could post our maps to for all? And before someone suggests it I'm not a big fan of sites things like rapidshare, especially for files as big as what we are talknig about.

I have 3 maps so far I' would be willing to share: Hobart, Tasmania. North East and North West Tasmania.

I will soon have Townsville, North Queensland done too.

PS

Great work Deniska, in7ane and contributors.

I need a complete map of California if anyone can get that. I have a 1 gig memory card that will be dedicated to just that map. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by justcerfin

I need a complete map of California if anyone can get that. I have a 1 gig memory card that will be dedicated to just that map. Thanks.

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I have the bay area with so-so details and the size is 220MB. I also have it in a very nice detail and it is 2.74GB.

I guess you are not looking for a street-level map for the whole California, right?

wow, I was but I didn't realize the thing would be that huge. I thought all of California would be like a gig or so. If I can just get the one you have for the bay area it would be nice if you don't mind. Thanks

can any one post california arizona and texas

How do you go about making maps? I dont see any for england anywhere so i'd definatley be up for making some and uploading them!

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Originally Posted by Arceon

How do you go about making maps? I dont see any for england anywhere so i'd definatley be up for making some and uploading them!

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This is from rhygin's FAQ---->

GMDL Tips&Tricks

Creating Maps with GMDL Thx to zsc
. Download and extract gmdl0.4.8b, all the files needed for GMDL to run are in '\gmdl0.4.8b\GMDL\bin\Debug' folder.
2. Execute 'Global Map Download Tool.exe'.
3. Using the Google map view, navigate to the area desire.
4. Click 'Advanced' button in the lower left corner.
5. In the box that shows up, click 'Get Numbers'.
6. Select the type of map from the list on the left.
7. In the Advanced box, select 'Preview', verify that the area shown in the center box is the one you want, if not, click 'Browse' tab, adjust the map (zoom in, zoom out, move it around), click 'Get Numbers' and 'Preview'.
8. Set the minimum zoom level, for MapThis! to work properly, zoom level must be greater or equal than '-2'.
9. If you want 'geodata.dat' to be added to the map, check the box 'Add GeoData.DAT (US only)', for US maps ONLY.
10. Click 'Set Dir' up top and choose the destination where map will be saved, must begin with '_' (underscore character), ie. '_Los Angeles'.
11. In the Advanced box, click 'Pull Files'.
12. A window will pop up, select zoom levels that you want in the upper left corner, only the checked zoom level will be downloaded.
13. In the 8x8 grid, uncheck any area that you dont want to download a detailed map for.
14. Click the bar on the top.
15. Sit back until map is created, place it in 'mapViewer\maps\' on your PSP.

Creating point to point routes with GMDL
1.Start gmdl
2. Open directions
3. Activate local.live, google or yahoo
4. Choose appropriate site i.e de.maps.google.de for Germany
(map24 is disabled at the moment)
5. Enter Starting point:
PLZ(Zipcode) Strasse(street)
e.g. 76726 An Deroy 22
6. Enter Ending point
PLZ(Zipcode) Strasse(street)
e.g. 76726 reduitstrasse1
7. Click on „Route Berechnen“ (calculate route)
you may skip this step but then you won`t see the calculated route in gmdl
8. Once route has been calculated click Button „Get Values“
9. Activate the „create intermittant“ function and leave the default value, otherwise you will only have the most important waypoints in your map and it won’t look like an outlined route from start to end.
9. Click Button List
10. enter a name for the route
makesure it starts with _ i.e. _myfirstroute
11. click Button „Save POI“
12. copy generated file to the mapfolder you are using
You will find the generated file in the same folder as the „Google Maps Download.exe“

Making smaller maps Thx to monkeyboy1982
A couple of tips to decrease the size of your maps:
1.Create map using "no GPSFS" option.
2.Do a search within the resulting .PNG files for any files less than 300bytes in size.
3.Delete all of these files. They are 99% useless as they tend to be tiles containing only one colour, or useless information.
4.Batch process all other .PNG's using Photoshop or other image batch processor, making sure you compress the files as much as possible.
5.Finally recompress all the files using ->GPSFS in GMDL software.

If anyone has NY maps, I'd appreciate it. We should get one of all the states have like a archive of some sort.

Could someone please upload a US, or California map??

Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Slamma

I would have thought it would be a good idea to share maps but noone has suggested it yet.

Has anyone got a torrent site or FTP site we could post our maps to for all? And before someone suggests it I'm not a big fan of sites things like rapidshare, especially for files as big as what we are talknig about.

I have 3 maps so far I' would be willing to share: Hobart, Tasmania. North East and North West Tasmania.

I will soon have Townsville, North Queensland done too.

PS

Great work Deniska, in7ane and contributors.

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Okay so I'm willing to use my website's bandwith to do this. But I just want to make sure that some unscrupulous bozo does not hack my website and Effs me in the A. ;) What are some good resources on how to set this up? I'm computer literate but I have not done anything like this before.