Thanks. That worked. I had a big long reply typed in for this & it seems to have gotten lost . The bottom line is that it seems that Canadian user's needn't bother with trying to download OSM maps with getmaps. Just go get the Tiger maps (all of the rnf* files are the Canadian provinces). One caveat is that all the tiger tarballs (*.gz files) have the map databases stored in sub-folders based on the state/province name. Roadmap needs this file in the roadmaps folder, not in a sub-folder, for it to access the files. A minor inconvenience to move them all the proper place.

But that leads me to finding other problems, however . It seems that roadmap is only set up to find locations based on US cities? After grabbing the ND database I was able to find a street in Grand Forks (100 Demers Ave), but it cannot find a local (for me) address (100 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB). I get the error 'No city with that name could be found'. Anyone have an idea what's the deal? TX