Having bought a New Nissan Note, with an integrated SatNav, I wanted to have speed and red light camera notifications. Using the data from OpenStreetMap I found a very simple way of doing this, all the data is free to use but is © OpenStreetMap contributors. the data is available under the Open Database License.
If you just want to download the speed camera POIs the csv files are below, they are updated during the first 5 weekdays of the month.
Download | Update Frequency |
---|---|
Europe | December and June |
UK | Monthly, first Monday |
The file is legal and free of any charge, donations are of course accepted, or simply visit some of the advertisers on this page.
To install the csv file follow the instructions in your Connect manual.
I use Linux but there are Windows verions of the programs available I think.
From OpenStreetmap download the program osmosis see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis and a relevant data file such as british-isles-latest.osm.bz2 from https://download.geofabrik.de/
All that you need to do is parse the file and create the csv file.
There are data sets available for all coutries of the world but they can be very big, the Europe one is c. 14GB
It seems that the csv format is the same as Garmin, it should be possible to convert the csv file to any other SatNav format. There are lots of online tools for this, or try the excellent freeware program gpsbabel
I can not verify if this will work but try something like this for the TomTom format:-
gpsbabel -i garmin_poi -f camera.csv -o tomtom -F camera.ov2
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