Map Updates 3. June and Biking Lake Garda Thurday-Sunday

Well I'm not so sure about how much time I will have this week, so I'm pushing out the newsletter already today. For the map updates no big changes this time. Most significant change is that I finally took the time to correct a bug that Garmin has not corrected since a long time.

That is asymetric lines like opposite cycleways, or cycleway:right are now shown on the correct side on your GPS (as long as you don't use the Mapsource/Qlandkarte map design). This also means clifflines point to the right direction as in normal topographic maps. As for Mapsource the side of the cliffs and cycleways is correct as long as your using the (trad) Mapsource/Qlandkarte layout.

Besides I rearranged 6 road types (0x10800 to 0x10805) as on last update I broke again (slightly) the showing of labels on new generation GPS (in case the openmtbmap where used together with other maps, and I'm pretty sure the 0x10800 types were responsible for this). Well except the edge 800 if you update to the newest firmwares released this week, the problem is gone anyway, but better play sure. However note that a hard reset is needed after updating the firmware […]

Map Updates 27. May — New easy/simple Layout

Donations via bank transfer and forum:

Well it took me longer than anticipated, but now it is not only possible to donate and acquire membership with Paypal/credit card, but also by good old bank transfer. See the details here: https://openmtbmap.org/support/membership/

So if you don't have Paypal / credit card, or stay away from using it due to ethical/political decisions (which I do support as I see ebay as an completly bad and capitalistic organisation) you can wire me money too (and thereby cut off ebay comissions, however causing me a bit more handwork, and taking a few days till you get your account data).

I hope to put up a support forum for members in the next weeks too. I am waiting for a plugin to move from alpha to at least beta stage, that will transfer the user names to phpBB forums. So once this is available, I'll set up a forum based on phpBB software.

Depending on what you want to report, that will be easier to communicate (as stuff like picture or video embedding will be possible).

On the outlook for the longer future I will also setup some video tutorials. Not sure yet if I make […]