OSM maps for Navitel - perspective navigation. OpenStreetMap - Free GPS Maps Open source maps

(literally " open street map"), abbreviated OSM— a non-commercial web-based mapping project to create a detailed free and free geographic map of the world by a community of Internet users.

Maps are created using data from personal GPS trackers, aerial photographs, video recordings, satellite imagery and street panoramas provided by some companies, as well as the knowledge of the person drawing the map. It is impossible to use services like Google Maps to create maps without the permission of the copyright holder.

OpenStreetMap uses the principle of a wiki to create a map. Each registered user can make changes to the map.

Now we will begin our story about how to make changes and additions to this rather detailed, developing and easy-to-use map.

First you need to go to the official OSM website http://www.openstreetmap.org/. You can enter the site both using your personal mailbox, and by linking an existing account in various communities, the icons of which are shown in the figure:

After entering the site, we will have the same picture as in the header photo of the blog. The page header contains the main menu with all the supported commands and features.

Now a completely logical question arises: how to edit the map after all?

The map can be edited both online, using two online editors: iD and Potlatch 2, and offline, using the editor installed on the computer. The second method is convenient for those who have a very low Internet speed or there are restrictions on the traffic used, where all changes can be made on your computer and then sent to the OSM server. Edits are sent as an XML file, so they will not have a significant impact on traffic.

In this article, we will edit the map online using the iD editor, because. iD and Potlatch 2 editors work in the same way, only Potlatch 2 allows you to map more different classes of objects and because of this it is more slow. For drawing and editing on the road map, a fast iD editor is quite enough.

In the upper left corner, we have three highlighted items "Edit", "History" and "Export". Moreover, the "Edit" item is inactive. When you hover over it with the mouse cursor, a hint appears that you need to zoom in to edit.

After the map is enlarged to the required scale, the "Edit" button will become active, when you click on it, a pop-up menu will appear where you can select the desired map editor.

Select the iD editor and start working with the map. You can make changes to the map both manually, using satellite images provided by the OSM service, and by plotting paths obtained from the tracks saved in the navigator. The following image shows the map editing window with the iD editor. Editing will become available only after zooming in, and the scale must be very large. The figure shows the extremely small scale, which is available for editing. As you can see, this scale is not very suitable for plotting objects from space images, but it can be used for plotting roads using GPS tracks.

As you can see, the editor is very simple and allows you to map only three types of objects: a point, a line, and a polygon. As you might guess, a point is the name of a certain place or a point object, a line is roads, a polygon is various areas (forests, settlements, houses, etc.).

On the toolbar on the right, only two buttons are of interest:

substrate setting. Those. what will be displayed on the map (Google snapshot, OSM map, etc.)

card data. Here, with the help of this button, GPS tracks are loaded into the editor, and also select those classes of objects that should be displayed or hidden on the map when editing.

And now let's figure out how to put objects on the map. I saw that in the ride the route passed in places along forest roads that are not on the OSM map. This deficiency needs to be corrected. To do this, download a real GPS track from Rafael and start plotting roads on a map using a real GPS track. In this example, I want to draw a beautiful forest path that we had before a halt at the lake. Here is a photo of this track:

The track is loaded, now you need to draw this road.

In the figure, the loaded real track is shown in pink, the white line along the track is the road plotted on the map. Any applied object can be edited. To do this, simply select it with the mouse cursor. The object does not have to be yours. To complete the drawing of the line on the map, click on the last point. The start and end points of the line are important because they determine the direction of movement. This is especially important when drawing one-way roads and rivers. But at any time the direction of movement can be changed by selecting the appropriate icon that appears after the activation of the object. On an existing object, you can change the position of existing points, add your own (drag the arrow located between the points), and delete points. Those. there is nothing complicated here.

When you select a newly plotted object, the object type menu appears on the left side of the screen

We have a road, so we choose it. After that, a list of possible roads will appear. We have a forest road, so we choose it

After that, we enter the necessary attributes of the forest road. These attributes are important for the OSM map, because they are used for automatic navigation in the future depending on the selected vehicle, as well as the ability to display the object on the map when discarding unnecessary objects (for example, a Ferrari will not drive along a forest road, so the driver of such a car will not want to so that field and forest paths clog the map and participate in automatic routing).

For the created road, I entered the following attributes:

Coating: unpaved

Width: 3m

Legal access: bicycle, motor transport, equestrians, pedestrians

Country road type: Rather soft: rolled soil mixed with hard materials

Patency: Strong wheels: hybrid bikes, cars, rickshaws

Difficulty of the mountain bike trail: 0: Smooth gravel/compacted ground, no obstacles, wide turns

Difficulty of mountain biking: 0: Medium lift<10%, гравий/утоптанная земля, без препятствий

Any action can be canceled before the data is sent to the server. If you forgot to define an object type or assign attributes to it, but at the same time reached the step of entering a comment, the last step can be canceled (clicking "Save") by closing the comment input window, while the unsaved object will not disappear anywhere.

These are unofficial, free maps. They are created by the Internet community Open Street Map (OSM). Another definite plus is that more than one person makes them, each registered user can make changes to the map. They are constantly updated and in many regions have more up-to-date information at the moment than official maps.

Instructions for installing OpenStreetMap maps for Navitel Navigator:

1. Make a copy of the memory card (just in case)
2. Copy the necessary *.nm2 files to any folder on the device or memory card (eg /sdcard/NavitelContent/Maps/AtlasOSM). If the regions do not border on each other, then in order for the route to be laid correctly, add a file with an overview map of Russia (Russia-overview-osm-nm2) to the folder with the selected maps.
3. In the Navitel program, open Menu - Settings - Map - Open atlas - middle icon with a folder at the bottom - select a folder and click "ok" (green checkmark)
4. After the indexing process is completed, the maps will be available for navigation

IMPORTANT! Maps of the OSM project are created in the only NM2 format, they work perfectly with the navigation program Navitel Navigator version 5.0.3 and below (better in version 3.5) without failures and restrictions. Also, OSM maps work well on versions of Navitel Navigator up to 9.10.xxxx

In this practical article, we will consider services that help download maps from the OpenStreetMap online service for subsequent conversion to other cartographic formats in order to use them offline without an Internet connection.

It's summer now, and for many, it's the prime time to travel. Therefore, it's time to get navigators, or put special navigation software on tablets and smartphones so as not to get lost in unfamiliar places. Moreover, there is no shortage of such programs in the current era of GPS and mobile devices. It offers users both geographic Internet services like Google Maps and Microsoft Bing, as well as specialized software like "2GIS" with its own maps.

The last option, with local maps that users pre-download and install for their navigation software, is in many cases not only more convenient, but also the only possible solution. Since the Internet in a particular area may be expensive or not work at all. But at the same time, the necessary offline maps of a particular area may also be missing.

Below we will consider options for loading cartographic data from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) online service with the subsequent goal of converting this data into a specific map format for your navigation program. We have already covered the OpenStreetMap project in detail. This is an open web mapping service, similar to Google Maps, whose data is collected by the users themselves and is available to everyone under an open license. In the article, for example, consider the conversion of OSM data for the OsmAnd program for Android devices, which we also considered in detail on the KV website.

Official website of OSM

So, we need to download OpenStreetMap map data for a specific area. First of all, this can be done from the official website of the service www.openstreetmap.org.

Directly on the online resource map there is an "Export" link, when clicked, a data export panel will appear. Here, using the blue button "Manually select a different area" (manual selection of a special area), you need to select a rectangle of the desired territory on the map, then select "OpenStreetMap XML Data" from the list of formats and click the "Export" button.

As a result, a file with the osm extension will be loaded. This is a text xml file with cartographic data, which can then be converted to other formats.

However, the official site imposes restrictions on the amount of downloadable map data. The map you upload must not contain more than 500 nodes. And any city will always be more than 500 nodes. But there are other services that allow you to download the desired geographic area without such restrictions.

Whole planet

Here you need to select the desired area on the OSM map, and in special fields indicate your e-mail address and set the name of the selected map. It is important that the service makes it possible to download the map not only in OSM format, but also convert it into ready-made Garmin, Navit, Esri formats.

Since the "extraction" of a specific map of the area on the service comes from planet.osm, this takes some time. The result will be ready in 15-30 minutes, depending on the size of the map area and the load on the service. As soon as the card extraction process is completed, the user will be notified to the e-mail address he left.

Convert

Thus, having received the cartographic data of a particular region in the form of a text osm file, you can start converting it into a ready-made map format with vector or raster graphics for a navigation application. For example, for OsmAnd software GPS navigator, you need to convert OSM cartographic data to OBF format.

There is a special OsmAndMapCreator converter for this. This application is written in Java and is cross-platform. It is launched after unzipping, depending on the operating system, by the sh or bat script. But at the same time, the program has a graphical interface.

You need to convert the osm file through the menu "File" - "Create obf file from osm file". After that, a file with the obf extension will appear in the pre-specified folder, which must be transferred to the Android device in the /sdcard/osmand/ directory. Now the map of this area will be available in OsmAnd in offline mode.

With OsmAndMapCreator, you can also create OBF maps using data from other online mapping services. But a review of these program features is beyond the scope of this article.

Mikhail ASTAPCHIK

In this article, I will share simple and convenient tools (maps and programs) that I myself use to plan and navigate my simple hiking routes in the process.

Disadvantages of topographic maps of the General Staff

Topographic maps of the General Staff (usually paper or already scanned) are good, as they provide high-quality standardized information about the area. But it is not always possible to have sufficiently detailed maps. And it is impossible to use them “quickly” by opening the cards on a computer or smartphone. They are not presented as a whole and each area has to be searched individually and in advance.

Having performed a certain dance with a tambourine, you can bind the map scan to the coordinates in special programs and upload it to the navigator yourself. But again, this must be done in advance, you need a navigator, skill and time. And if you decide to just take a walk on vacation in a huge park or suddenly get lost somewhere in nature (especially in mountainous areas) and want to find a path? In such a situation, a once-installed application on a smartphone will surely help you out.

In addition, there are other goodies that are missing in topographic maps, which I will talk about later.

Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning a good service that connected the maps of the General Staff into a combined online map - Routes.ru. But so far I have not found such cards in applications on smartphones.

- modern topographic maps

For myself, I have long found a replacement that covers most of my goals (simple tracking). These are maps based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.

These are open non-commercial online maps of the whole world created jointly by the participants of this project.
To create maps, data from personal GPS trackers, aerial photographs, video recordings, satellite images and street panoramas provided by some companies, as well as project participants, are used.

In fact, this is data about objects created by a huge community of people in various ways. And anyone can freely build maps based on this data.

So why is OSM better? topographic cartgenstaff?

1. Completeness of coverage. They represent the whole world.
2. Detail and precision provided information about the terrain and the location of objects.
3. hiking trails. A large number of accurate information about hiking trails based on GPS trackers. And this is what allows you to use the map for direct navigation along the trails. And if you find yourself in conditions of unexpected snowfall and a swept path, poor visibility, such information will help you find the lost path. It has saved me many times.
4. Lots of easy to use programs and services for various devices and operating systems using these cards. All thanks to an open license. Most of them provide the ability to save maps offline on your device for navigating the area without using the Internet.
5. Possibility map export into all sorts of formats. Be it PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, PostScript or even Garmin and Polish format for other navigation software.
6. Some programs and services overlay these maps with data from other maps and sources adding information and functionality. For example, data from Wikimapia
7. If you have internet, you can load the desired area on the spot.

In addition, there is everything that is in topographic maps:

1. Terrain type. Rocks, forests, fields, rivers, reservoirs and all the rest.
2. The presence altitude information(OpenCycleMap, Landscape, OpenTopoMap).
3. Water sources

The list of advantages is far from complete and represents only what most clearly reflects the advantages from my point of view and for my purposes (tracking).

OSM based maps

The main and first map built on these data has the same name OpenStreetMap and is located at the address of the project itself. Often provides more useful terrain information than the next two, but does not display elevation.

These maps are available online both on the osm site itself and on its own domain.
The most interesting layers for tracking with heights are actually OpenCycleMap and Landscape (available only at http://www.opencyclemap.org).

Map (layer) Landscape, in my opinion, represents more information about the area.

Recently discovered these cards. Despite their name, they are also built on the OpenStreetMap database, but they are more like topographic maps and are similar in many ways to the Landscape layer mentioned above.

Wikimapia
The slogan of the project: "Let's describe the whole world!". An international project, an online geographic encyclopedia whose goal is to tag and describe all geographic features on Earth. And they do it very successfully. Wikimapia has over 2.4 million registered users and over 26 million features added to the map (as of 2016). The project uses various maps on its website, including OSM. On them and displays these objects. Wikimapia data often uses other services to overlay their maps.

Programs for a computer with OSM maps

To plan a route on a computer, you can use online maps in a browser. But this is not very convenient.

I am using the program SAS.Planet for Windows. The program accumulates all of the above cards except Landscape. As well as many other cards including General Staff cards from the service Routes.ru, GoogleMaps, YandexMaps and many others.

You can overlay data from other maps and databases on one card, thus creating personal information. Allows you to plot routes, measure distances, save marks, export maps and data to other formats. Allows you to connect a navigator and much more.

Without navigation, nowhere, especially considering the state of our roads. Have you noticed that your navigator is not stable? Then you need to download OSM maps for Navitel as soon as possible. They contain all the necessary information about the settlements of the country, these maps show POI objects, such as restaurants, bars, and places for cultural recreation.

OSM maps for navigator - something more than ordinary navigation. This is a project that is created by enthusiasts with their own hands. The service provides raster maps of the area, and navigation services based on them create the maps that we are used to. This approach makes it possible to organize navigation as accurately as possible.

The OSM project is a completely non-commercial project. This means that all maps are provided free of charge under a public license. Moreover, Open Street Map acts as a wiki, which allows everyone to make changes to the maps and this makes OSM even better, better and more popular.

Why OSM is worth using?

Open Street Map has a number of advantages over other projects of a similar nature:

• accuracy;

Navitel OSM maps are so detailed that with a 99% probability, every hump and uneven terrain that is on the maps will occur in real life. This is due to the fact that the maps are constantly being finalized by the OSM community on the Internet. As a result, changes are made, old versions are updated, and new maps are improved.

• free distribution;

The project exists on a donation. This made it possible to absolutely download all OSM maps for Navitel. At the same time, the quality will be far from worse than that of paid services.

• wide girth;

Unlike most projects, OSM maps for Navigator cover the entire globe. Therefore, using them, you are guaranteed to know how to get to the place you need in an unfamiliar country or continent. Moreover, OSM is ahead of some paid "brothers" in accuracy - TomTom/Tele Atlas. According to the study, the accuracy of the Open Street Map exceeds these maps by 27%.

• convenient use;

Maps can be imported in any convenient format - PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF or PostScript. Also, it is possible to ship them to Garmin, GisRussa.

The WIKI format allowed OSM to create a unique mapping project. After all, the fact that the maps are being finalized by the inhabitants of the area gives undeniable advantages. Firstly, the accuracy is extremely high, and secondly, reliability is ensured. And thirdly, this is the general availability of the OSM map for Navitel. You can download them on our website for free and without SMS.

Read about how to install maps.

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