I didn't download the EU OSM maps since I don't want to clog the server with such an unnecessary download for me.
I'm in Brazil, but the device is from Europe, so I have the 'official' Garmin maps for EU and the OSM maps for Brazil, thus the area of the globe of these two maps don't overlap. I gave it a bit more thought these days and maybe the following is relevant:ġ.
I personally am just a mere human which barely knows how to type in an internet address. I'm just explaining it that thoroughly 'coz I don't know if older Garmins work the same way as mine does, and maybe this difference may give you a hint on how the Garmin folks encode their addresses. But, if you browse the map, all the street names show up neatly. I noticed too that the same 'No Map Data Avaliable' message shows up when you press the Intersection option. If you try to leave the option and then select Address, the same error message aforementioned pops up, thus rendering the workaround ineffective. The problem is that if you choose to do so, it only points you to the city and won't prompt you for an address. The Cities (and POI) option works just fine, allowing you to select the city from a list of closest ones or type it in. On this device, when you select Where To, a new screen pops up allowing you to select a variety of options, such as Address, POIs, Intersections, Cities, etc. I tried the workaround you mentioned by searching for the City first, then the Address. Initially I was worried it was a problem with my device, but I tested it with the default Garmin maps, with which it works just fine. If you go to Where To? -> Address, an error message shows up saying 'No Map Data Available', not allowing you to search for anything whatsoever. The search problem seems to be even worse on this device. I just bought a brand-new nuvi 1490t with a SD card and copied your map on it. If you or the Mkgmap guys make the search for addresses possible this would be a huge push for OSM! Because then you just need simple cheap hardware from garmin and you have workwide routable maps available. So for any solutions with the address index I would be really thankful. Then activate again the OSM Map goto "My Locations", choose "Recent Selections" and choose the street.īut this is a huge workaround which might work for us technical guys, but sadly not for my mother. The only workaround would be to select the build in maps and search for the street.
I have found no way to search for a street in a city with the OSM maps. Search on "Intersections" also does not work because of the State problem. It will not find streets, it seems like only POI's are returned. "My destination" und use the "Spell Name" slection.
(Typing is really slow, much slower than with the build in maps).Īfter that I select the city and navigate to the city. I can not use the address search, because of the state problem. I tested it with a the "All in one Garmin Map" from german on my Nüvi 350 EURO It would be nice if people report back which method works for which device then I'll keep this post up-to-date (just the group name if it's not already listed, there's no need to show all the variants within a product group). Enter the placename to narrow the search down to the correct street. You can choose the street from the matches or Enter the streetname (at which point the GPS will start providing feedback about possible matches). Enter any housenumber first (it does not have to be an existing housenumber) Select it.Ģ) Otherwise you can use the normal address search, but:
I have the same problem on my Nuvi 250 and tried the NZ maps, they work so these NZ boys seems to have solved the problem, but i can't find how they solved it.Įvery map created with Mkgmap will have this problem which means that almost every map from this list has the same address search behavior.Īddress search will mostly work via one of the two methods provided below:ġ) If your GPS asks for a State/Country code then don't use the address search but use the following two-step process: Some previous discussions of this problem: I'm using the open source Mkgmap application for that. A keyboard modification is posted on the forum to force it to stay upper case instead of reverting back to lower case after the first letter.ĭon't they use cGPSMapper for creating their maps? cGPSMapper is closed source (and non-free for advanced options). Also, on the 1xxx and later models the street name has to be in all upper case. I don't know the details of the change but a nuvi (etc) can now global search (all of NZ) with the one proviso that a City name is not used. They had to change the way it was processed and the problem was solved - NZ maps form … &Itemid=11 The New Zealand Open Project mappers had this issue too with the nuvi models.