Comments on: Creating Route Maps with OpenStreetMap

By: drftr

drftr — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 01:08:08 +0000

Hello Mike and thank you for your great write-up. Luckily I found it as I previously had said No to uMap, being turned off by the fact they often use the French names of cities and stuff. But I realize now that I may be able to change this by selecting a different underlying map?

Although I haven’t recorded any of my travels using a GPS I’m about to start visually documenting 10+ years of travelling in 100+ countries. One very important question for me is if there’s any way I can later view all those routes in one huge map and print that as an enormous world map or so. Or do I end up with 100+ different maps?

Last but not least, because even great initiatives cease to exist: Is there a way to export everything created to use it in yet another tool should that ever become necessary?

Thanks again!

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:29:16 +0000

In reply to Laura. Glad you found it useful! I sometimes feel I should go and update the post since it's been quite a while, but it's mostly the same and everyone seems able to figure out the little changes since the original post :-) Mike

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:58:36 +0000

Hi Mike and Kathie,
Laura from Chapter 3 Travels referred me to this post when I asked her about mapping. You know you’ve done a damn fine job on a post when it is still relevant 4 years later! Thanks so much for the “How To”!! FYI you can export a map from RV Trip Wizard and use the data on OSM! So helpful!

By: Mihály+Fátima

Mihály+Fátima — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:20:23 +0000

We have rebooted our map. Thanks to your great tutorial, I was able get a useful map that works for us (dropped Google). I’m still in the process of adding content to our new map.

I have linked to your travel blog (great stuff, by the way) and to your step-by-step mapping guide.

Wish you guys all the best, safe travels.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:34:08 +0000

In reply to Bruce Overbay. Bruce, no I haven't done any updates. The process above still works for me (using the Garmin). -Mike

By: Bruce Overbay

Bruce Overbay — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:30:27 +0000

Hello, Mike,

Did you every do an update to this post?

Regards,
Bruce

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 19:55:24 +0000

In reply to Dave Lees. Dave, sounds like fun! We hope to spend a few months exploring Australia by mini RV some day...

By: Dave Lees

Dave Lees — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:42:22 +0000

Hi,
And thanks from a land down under.
The umap interface to OSM works really well, and you effort in documenting it is appreciated.
We wander in a completely environment to you, preferring 4wd tracks and back roads that I like to record. Needless to say we need a much smaller rig, it being a ute (pick-up in U.S. speak) and a slide-on camper.
Enjoyed reading about you travels though, so different and yet still the same.
Cheers
Dave

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:29:57 +0000

In reply to Leslie. Leslie, did you rename the file so it ends in .zip instead of in .kmz? If it's opening Google Earth, it sounds like it's still named as a kmz file...