Do you want a better map for your GPS? You can use a map from OpenStreetMap on your Garmin GPS depending on the model of your device. You'll find several devices listed on the OpenStreetMap wiki. I'll demonstrate with a Garmin etrex Vista HCx, other models may vary.

Garmin made the unfortunate choice of using a proprietary data format for their maps. There are several ways to convert map data to Garmin format.

It can be this easy for you:  read more »

Kenneth is becoming Doris. This is something of an upset for those of us who know and love Kenneth but perhaps it is for the best. Let me explain.  read more »

My OpenStreetMap presentation at FOSSLC SummerCamp 2009 was recorded.  read more »

Why does Mapnik render so much of Germany and so little of Cleveland?

That's a great question from one regular reader.

Let's go through how to get Mapnik to render the areas that interest you. Follow along and I'll make this general enough that you can render Cleveland, Columbus or even Cincinnati!  read more »

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A friend was fed up with poor integration and deliberately broken standards support from Microsoft products and blurted the following on Twitter.

Supermathie "Hi, my name is Outlook! Oh, you have more 
than 1.9GB of mail in your IMAP store? I'll just stand here 
drooling like a retarded platypus."

A touch of frustration perhaps? Probably.

I wondered aloud to Twitter if some of the Microsoft-folk following me knew of a fix for this failing in Microsoft Outlook?

So here are the replies I received from my friends in the order that they arrived.  read more »

If you are reading these articles in the order that they are published, then there are several steps missing between Make your first Map and this one. Sorry. I'll fill in the rest soon. This appears not yet to be documented elsewhere. So it is probably worth jumping ahead for this one.

This article deals with OpenStreetMap API v0.5  read more »

Background

Come on. The new highway shields are nice, but the map in North America just isn't there yet. Our continental cousins may be satisfied with generic oval highway markers, but that just doesn't measure up in the New World.

The new markers, shown above, turned up on mapnik recently. They seem more refined than the rectangular signs used previously and they are very pretty. But they just aren't right for North America.  read more »

OpenStreetMap provides Free geodata and Free Software tools to use that data. A previous article demonstrates building an OpenStreetMap tile server. This article demonstrates populating it with OpenStreetMap geodata and having your server create a nice picture of a map for you.  read more »

OpenStreetMap offers many choices and great power. We know that with great power, there must also come great responsibility.[1] And so it is with fonts. Your choice is likely to be a font from your corporate brand guide or a font mandated by regulation. It would be irresponsible to use a decorative font like Olde English on our maps so for this demo we'll add a suitable font to the system and show how to bring it in to play on the map.  read more »