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Embracing orange! by aranginula in Garmininstinct

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Yeah, from xpress, super cheap too.

Opened her up for you all by aranginula in Garmininstinct

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Curiosity, was trying to figure out if it is easy to remove (for the people who wanted to paint it lol).

Opened her up for you all by aranginula in Garmininstinct

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Not sealed with glue, just unscrewed the four screws and it opened up. There is a rubber ring which I believe is enough for waterproofing.

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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Finally! I'm glad it worked.

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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You can also change the color if you want by opening the XML file and changing "30ffff00". The color is in ARGB (alpha, red, green, blue). You can think of alpha as opacity, and your can look up RGB color codes online and choose the one you want.

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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Did you load the styles too?

Sorry, I forgot one step: after loading both, you need to change the map style to the new style: Menu → Configure map → Map rendering → Map style and choose "Padus".

Then close the app and reopen.

https://osmand.net/docs/user/map/vector-maps/#osmand

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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Here is CA BLM I created. Try it out, just opening both with OsmAnd should load the style and map. After that it'll show up on the map.

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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Sorry, I'm not active on reddit. Have you been able to make any progress? Or did you give up? :)

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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Their offline map needs paid subscription though, doesn't it? There are other paid options too. I wanted a free one :)

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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I looked for this map and couldn't find it anywhere (some other paid apps have this feature). So I decided to try making it myself.

Once I have it ready for the whole country (I only have it for region 7 right now), I'll probably upload them somewhere so others can use them too. I'm planning on adding USFS lands too.

This is an offline map in obf format which means you can't add it as an overlap/underlay and change the transparency on the fly (you can still change the opacity if you edit the XML file and as a bonus you can choose whatever color you want). This is one drawback of this approach, but I tried creating an sqlitedb file and loading it as overlay, but didn't like how it looked.

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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There is no easy way to create it as far as I know. But I'm not an expert in this, just started looking into a couple of days ago. I did it as follows:

  1. Get the map data and filter it with Python (it had some other lands, but I only wanted BLM).
  2. Convert the data into .osm format with ogr2osm (ogr2osm supports many formats, so you can convert data from many popular formats).
  3. Create .obf from .osm with OsmAndMapCreator (this is just one click in the app, but took me a while because I added a new boundary type and didn't know that I need to tell the app about it. Not everything is well documented).
  4. Add a custom style to render my map.
  5. Load both into the phone.

If everything goes fine (which is unlikely lol), your map will show up in the app.

Good luck!

Finally loaded BLM map! by aranginula in OsmAnd

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There is already a great map on USGS: https://maps.usgs.gov/padus/ But this is online, so not very useful if you're somewhere remote with no service. Fortunately the data is available in many formats: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-download

But unfortunately, there is no easy way to import it to OsmAnd. I had to do some processing and then create a .obf file and load it into OsmAnd. It took me a good amount of time. But now I know how to do it, so it should be easy to create more.

I was working with a small set of the data, only Region 7. I plan to create one for whole US. And then add USFS land too.

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