Just one more thought about typ files: from the little I have gleaned with my experiments on my Zumo 660 is that support for them in this unit is broken. I tried to create a dashed line for dirt roads (like what we used to have in MS and the 60CSx), as they are now all but indistinguishable from minor roads. The result: anything transparent and any secondary colour and border in lines are black.
I have no knowledge of this, but I suspect that some of the newer Nuvis will have the same ‘features’, as the Zumo is very similar to Nuvis.
Peter,
Did you check with mapsettoolkit if the Family ID of the map corresponds with the one in the Typ file?
You also need to ‘instruct’ mapsource that you have added a typ file otherwise it wont see it if you send the maps
with typ file to your unit. As far as i know nuvis will work with the typ files, but Im not sure how compatible they are with
the latest units.
Yes, the FID is normally correct, but even when it isn’t it makes no difference. I can see the effect of the typ alright, it’s just that the display is not what the program that created it (gentypg) says it should look like. As I said, primary colours are ok, but borders and secondary colours I can have in any colour, as long as it is black. (Henry Ford)
I tried the online editor, but I can’t see how I can create a dashed line there. gentypg lets me create patterned lines, whereas the online editor seem to allow only solid lines.
First of all thanks for the great work with the maps.
I just downloaded some tiles for Austria and I don’t know what is wrong but there is a street missing. I can see it on the map online but when I copy the downloaded map (created some hours ago) i can’t see it in MapSource and in the GPSMap60cs.
The street I mention is in Austria->Styria->Eisenerz the road to the Leopoldsteiner Lake in the north western area of Eisenerz. As I mentioned on the online version I can see it and in MapSource and on my GPS it’s missing.
That road is very new (created on january 19th) so I guess it just wasn’t in the planet dump used for this map update. It’s probably best if you check again a future update and see if it is still missing (I guess not, there is no reason why it shouldn’t be in the Garmin maps).
For users who are only interested in generating a gmapsupp.img file the solution to do it yourself is not far away.
There exists already longtime a (free) program sendmap20.exe (with sendmap.exe). http://cgpsmapper.com/buy.htm which combines such tiles to one gmapsupp.img file. (I did not test the linux version).
Once a user selected tiles on your site and downloaded them sendmap20 will make an gmapsupp.img file out of them.
(sendmap20 can send the .img to the garmin device too. But I’m not interested in this possibility as I just put the .img on the microSD card. I’m not intereste to show them in Mapsource either.).
So the only problem is to download the selected files.
Yesterday I wrote a program for that. Once the tiles are selected ( I used Firefox) I select all tiles -which are summarised in the left margin of your webpage). Then click right on the selection and choose “source of selection”. The contents of the window that opens has to be copy/pasted in my program which then downloads all tiles.
Then it is just only select all img files in explorer and drop them on sendmap20. Today I tested this on windows 7. All worked.
Lambertus: servis is not working… I have been already waitnig 6 days for my map to be built. Just requested it again and realised there is 962 requests in the queue. Need a map of Morrocco for my next week overland trip to north Africa - please help !!!