Already uploaded:

  • Germany
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Ozeanina

From Sunday on:

  • SouthAmerica
  • USA

Partial Updates: (full update next weekend):

  • Canada
  • Russia

New and improved features for this update:

  • rendering of buildings improved and completed
  • alle tourist-informations like offices, boards aso are now rendered form zoom level 16 on in urban areas
  • redering of campsites further improved
  • further workaround for the Mapsforge common-value-bug eg. rendering of tunnels where oneway=no ist tagged
  • more filtering of layer tags

From Saturday morning to Sunday 03:00pm im out paddling, any support request will be resolved on Sunday evening.

Have a nice weekend, Christian

Hello,

there is a frequent wish to use Openandrompas on a Windows PC, particularly planning and administration of routes and tracks
The truth is: there is no straightforward way to use Mapsforge vector maps under Windows.

HOWEVER: Android developers rarely test their apps on a real smartphone or tablet in the first place, but use a virtual Android machine.

VM_Base
(Android 4.1-Tablett in einem Fenster unter Windows)

What does this mean ?
It’s an operating system inside an opertating system, i.e. Android is just a Window under Windows. And this is what
you need for it:

And here are English Keyboards:
https://www.google.at/search?q=english+keyboard&client=firefox-a&hs=IPP&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=lfyqUaCqPMbasgau0IGwBQ&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1320&bih=695

The English keyboard is required only for first start and installation, as the QWERTY keyboard is the default in AndroVM. E.g. the @ is SHIFT-2, which you need to specify your google account

And here we go:

  1. In 64 bit Windows first activate CPU virtualization in BIOS – with 32 bit it should work without that.
    If this option is not offered or does not work, then go to AndroVM settings and define only one processor to be used. Also deactivate “VT-x/AMD-V” via Change/System/Acceleration. Multiple cores only add limited value, as Mapsforge uses one kernel only.
  2. Then set a system restore point, just to be safe.
  3. Next install the components of above SW list in the given order, using default values. You have to have network connection for proper network setup. Ignore the many warnings from WIndows etc.
    If you have a firewall, allow VM !!
  4. Start the ANdroid VM – back/home buttons still missing; use ESC instead so far.
  5. Sign into your google account, using same id as on your smartphone (get help from English keyboard layout from above). In case you prefer non-English keyboard, you now can switch to your language.
  6. Now you can install your apps from GooglePlaystore; it may take 10-15 min until your new “tablet” is recognized by Playstore. After that you do not need to pay again for your existing apps.
  7. Install “TotalCommander”, a great, root enable file manager.
  8. To get a status bar in your VM, use the app “AndroVM-Config” and set “force statusbar”. Android will now reboot and you will then see the HW buttons at the bottom. You need to redo this after each each full
    shutdown of the VM. You can safe the current state instead, though, when closing the VM.

Now we have Android in VM working, but it is a closed universe for now.
How do we get our files in (maps, themes etc.) and out (routes, POIs etc.) ?

This is where “shared-folders” come into play, which can be defined in the AndroVM settings. I.e. we define which Windows folders we are going to use for data exchange (and do it right now …). Here is an example:

  • c:AndroExchange
  • c:AndroExchangemaps
  • c:AndroExchangethemes
  • c:AndroExchangepois
  • usw….

Then shut down AndroidVM fully and select “Change” to see its properties. Click “shared folder” add your folder (“c:\AndroExchange\” in our example) via the green “+”. If an Android names like “AndroExchange” does not work, then the Android name should be “mysdcard”. Select “automatic connect”.

Now restart the VM, set the force status bar, reboot Adroid and start
Totalcommander. The shared folders are in /mnt/shared.

Congratulations – now you can copy back and forth between Windows and
Android VM.

Beste Regards and thanks to Michael for translating,
Christian

Locus in VM / Wachau mit hillshading

Hello,

The Campsites now appear on zoom-level 13, no matter if they are tagged as poi or attribute bound to a way.
Germany and Europe are updated (as usual), added map of the Bermudas.
New in the tagset: “mountain_pass=yes”, however actually not rendered in the Themes.

Best regards, Christian

Michael from Heidelberg contributed a MTB-Theme based on the andromaps_mtb where he invested lots of afford to bring in his real-world experience with MTB-cycling/Openandromaps.

The most significant change is that he avoids yellow rendering of paths with no MTB:Scale tagged. In addition he invested lots of afford to adjust the rendering to the different zoom-levels.
For me this Theme is a major improvement so I decided to serve it as standard for MTB (andromaps_mtb.xml).

The new legend and theme is already online: [klick]

Best regards, Christian

An improved tag-mapping of the openandromaps ensures that all campsites and caravansites tagged in the OpenStreetMap Database are rendered with the openandromaps.

– For Locus please download the latest themes
– The new themes for Oruxmaps are included in zip-files of the maps as usual.

This applies for all maps from 20.5.2013 on (dd.mm.yyyy)

Best regards, Christian

Hi,
The Mapset for Russia has reached full coverage both in Russian and English language.
Moscow ist included in “Central”, St.Petersburg in “North-West-1”
Greatings to our friends in Russia, Christian

Germany: Now has its own download page.
I added all states as seperate files for those with small data-accounts.

Europa: Ukraine is now available in cyrillic too.

Africa, Oceania: new rendered

China: The coplete coverage is now ready for download

Japan: For the first time whole Japan is available for download.

Comming next week: Russia both in english and cyrillc

Best regards, Christian

Russia now have its own download section due to its size.
At the moment these maps are rendered in english language (as far as tagged in Openstreetmap), in the future – after completing coverage and finetunning – the maps will be available both in english and cyrillic.
Available at the moment: Caucasia, Central, Ural-South, Volga
The database of Russia is of excellent quality, thanks to the russian cummunity!

Best regards, Christian

Now made possible with the new Rendermachine:
Germany and France with complete coverage and combined Cycle/Hikeroutes

Germany:
The Mapping of Germany is made in the same way as the Netherlands to ensure sufficiant loading times, the downside is that this adds some MB to the mapsize – not a big issue in times of 64GB SD-Cards
The seperated cycle/Hike maps for Germany will stay in the portfolio – maybe they will be replaced by smaler maps with the coverage of the German states.

France:
The French map is redered with a special mapping that ensures fast loading times. If you like this mapping it is possible to use it for other big maps in the future. The France South/Mid/North maps will be discontinued with the next update.

Update of the complete European mapset:
All maps now contain the tags for additional cycle barriers:

	
<pois>
	<osm-tag key="barrier" value="bollard" zoom-appear="16" />
	<osm-tag key="barrier" value="cycle_barrier" zoom-appear="16" />
	<osm-tag key="barrier" value="gate" zoom-appear="16" />
	<osm-tag key="barrier" value="lift_gate" zoom-appear="16" />
	<osm-tag key="barrier" value="chain" zoom-appear="16" />		
</pois>

Currently these tags are not rendered in the standard Renderthemes. However, MTB-enthusiasts will manage to add these to their custom Themes.
BUT: keep in mind that in the current version of Mapsforge pois are not rendered 100% reliable, so keep two fingers at the brake levers 😉

Best regards, Christian

The long awaited maps for Canada are now available, only Ontario and the NW-Territories + Novanut are still mising and will be added ASAP.
Now available:

  • Alberta
  • British-Columbia (complete coverage)
  • Saskatchewan
  • Vancouver
  • Manitoba
  • Quebec_North, incl. Newfoundland
  • Quebec_South, incl. Nova Scotia und New Brunswick
  • Yukon

If there are Problems with these maps please drop me a line with a permalink of the region in question – the datastructure of the millions of lakes in some areas are most complicted (Monster relations with thousands of members) and may lead to problems with mapsforge.