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Hi Can I use Medion Car-navigation maps (.map og .psf) in Oregon 450? Is this possible? Perhaps after conversion? |
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I'd be surprised if you could. My recollection (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) is that the Medion devices run their own software, on top of Windows Mobile. There's a bit of info in the OSM wiki, but that's concerned with recording tracks using them. There's also this page, which suggests that you can't easily get stuff into and out of PSF format, and there's also this page on the forum from 2009. However, getting OSM maps (including routable ones) onto a Garmin Oregon should be relatively straightforward - at least the vector format produced by the likes of mkgmap that also supports earlier Garmin devices. See the "download" and "creating your own maps" links on this page. Hi - thanks for your quick and thorough answer! I just heard that both Garmin and Medion uses maps from Navteq and I thought that the might be the same or convertable formats! I´ll look in to OSM's and give it a try! Thanks again!
(28 Dec '11, 09:41)
Lars Holm
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It's worth drawing a distinction between "data" and "maps" here I think. In the case of Navteq, the data that is used to create maps for different devices is theirs (or licensed by them from third parties such as government agencies). The maps themselves that are produced from this data may be totally different (different format, and also different things shown on the map). In the case of OSM the data is a large XML file representing the entire planet (for which more easily downloadable extracts are available) but many different people create many different maps. There are some answers here explaining why different maps based on OSM data look different. To make a beer analogy - some of the ingredients that go into making either a light-coloured lager or a dark porter will be identical, but the end products will look and taste very different.
(28 Dec '11, 12:15)
SomeoneElse ♦
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you may know that garmins use there own form of vector format maps,you can get openstreetmap on it http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin although the newer garmins such as the origon can, I believe, display a jpeg. I do not have an origon but it may display a garmin nuvi road map. as the garmin 1310 will display OSM maybe the reverse is true