Here is the background to that.

The site that DC Rainmaker’s post about downloading Garmin maps was abandoned a few years ago.

It sort of looked like it was working and it had “Openstreetmap” as part of the URL (though, it wasn’t part of the Openstreetmap organization.

DC Rainmaker’s post made things worse since it directed many people to the broken website.

So, it ended up Openstreetmap kept getting complaints about a website they had nothing to do with. That is, the URL falsely made it look like the site was owned by the Openstreetmap organization (which is likely why you were confused, like lots of people).

People talked about taking over the original site to fix the problem but there wasn’t anybody who could give access to the original site.

Given that the owner of the original site was fairly active in the community, it wasn’t likely he just walked away from maintaining the site. He even fixed a bug I reported.

It would have been no work to put up a page saying the site was no longer in operation.

It was ugly.

I suspect the owner of the original site died.

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People ended up getting enough access to change the URL to redirect to the bbbike website.

Bbbike is great. But the region selection on the other site was easier to use.