Couple of helper scripts for creating OSM maps doCountries.pl - This downloads a bunch of Maps from Geofabrik Takes path for place to store files createGarmin.pl - Creates the OSM maps Takes path to the home map-features.csv - Scheme for visual features on garmin devices Found original version on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org You need the following files splitter.jar - http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/splitter/ mkgmap.jar - http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/snapshots/ Be sure to provide the right paths within the scripts The setup is expected to look like this /path/to/java .. \$home \osm \garmin splitter.jar mkgmap-rVERSION.jar map-features.csv \pub-html \osm \countries country.osm.bz2 \garmin \countries country.gmap.bz2 $tmp tmp directory is used make sure it is getting cleaned up BUG: Tmp Files are not always properly removed