>If I were you, I would use JOSM to download and save a small area that >contains a route.  (Or you can define a bogus route relation on your >home street and not download it, just save it to a file that you would >process with mkgmap.) I've tried your suggestion, using JOSM to obtain a file with a couple of routes I created some time a go. Everything works pretty well, and I am able to obtain the map I want. I have to check the content of Italy's dump from geofabrik.de in order to see why it does'nt work as expected. Thank you very much! Fabrizio