Last week the weather here in Japan was seriously bad with rain and snow for a few days so I had to take a small break from surveying my home turf.

That said I spent some time kicking the bucket with osmosis and mkgmap. It took me a bit of mucking around to get everything working on my wimpy P4. But after a few hours of processing the files are finally available.

Since everything is running of my home DSL I put some bandwidth limitation on the downloads and speeds should not reach more than 20kbit/s for any download. Please only download if you really need the maps. There is limited bandwidth on that link.

At this point the maps are still considered beta, while I have used them myself I don't know if they are any good outside of Tokyo.

If you find any issues let me know.

OSM files: http://verleihnix.bun.ch/osm/asia/japan
GMAP files: http://verleihnix.bun.ch/gmap/asia/japan

Happy downloading :)

cheers,

--urs