No, I don’t. I have used gentypG to create just two line styles: http://gwprojects.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1126&p=23042&e=23042
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.
It does support patterns. If you set bitmap height > 0 you can see a bitmap editor to fill in a pattern.
See an example here:
http://sites.google.com/site/openfietsmap/downloads/customize
Ive read that gentyp is a bit outdated and maybe doesnt support the newer units anymore.
Yes, the author wrote that gentyp is old and his prog is based on that, but he only just released a new version, see link.
OK, I get what you mean. I had another go with Typ Wiz 0.573 and here is what I get in MS:
Looks ok, but when you zoom out it looks hideous:
This is what it looks like on my zumo:
Note the black between the dashes. Also, the line is now very thin at any zoom.
Anyway, thanks for your help, but I think we are getting way off-topic here and the topic is already very long…
Kind regards,
Peter.
PS: back to my typ with solid lines, which is working.
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.
Thanks for help.
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).
OK. I’ll try in some weeks again.
Thanks for the quick answer.
Could someone explain to me why my osm maps display as green blotches on my oregon 450 instead of a solid green for forest areas.
Wow! There are around 735 requests in the queue right now and the number keeps rising. Did something happen?
Nope, nothing special afaik. I don’t see anything new in the top referrers either. Maybe people are preparing for a holiday? I don’t know…
The service is working fine though.
Lucky you! On my Zumo forests are brown diagonal stripes. You need to go to the mkgmap compiler mailing list and complain about that.
Cheers,
Peter.
That is because the default styles don’t have a typ file yet.
Maybe installing this typ file will help?
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=10032
Please note that you will need a tool like mapset toolkit to install a typ file:
See http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ligfietser/diverse/mapsettoolkit.jpg
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.
Hi Lambertus,
There is a big hole in the middle of Thailand again.
Cheers,
Peter.
Sorry Peter, I haven’t fixed the country matching algorithm yet. Fortunately you only have to manually add 1 missing tile.
Ok, I didn’t realise that. Even more fortunate, I can choose Laos and only loose a few km in the very South, which I don’t need right now anyway.
Kind regards,
Peter.
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 !!!
Afaik the service is working, the current oldest request in the queue is created the 10th 15:18 (looks like the delay guestimate is fairly accurate). I also still get emails from people, who can’t get their heads around installing maps and such, who received their email recently (in the last 2 days). The service is simply overwhelmed, i.e. more requests coming in than it can process per time unit.
Also, there isn’t a jump the queue function (not even for me :p). All I can suggest is to get your map early with room to spare for busy times.
I still got no email and did already 3 requests since feb 9th. Just look at the queue Lambertus, it is nearly 1000 requests pending !
If you need a map quickly here is how to get it:
Select the country you want. Download the tiles you need individually from the list on the left, under the email link.
Download MapsetToolkit from somewhere and use that to install the tiles into MS.
Works like a charm.
Lambertus: you may remember that I said to expect this to take off like a rocket. Now it does. I’m happy to contribute a few Es to increase computing power. What you have built is so good and essential for Garmin users that it deserves to have more resources.
Kind regards,
Peter.
What’s your email address (the one you provided when requesting the map)? I can lookup your email address and touch the file so it jumps the queue (note to lurkers: this is an exception!). You can just post your email address here or set it in your forum profile…
Edit 1: Watch the machine being busy or waiting for disk space.
Edit 2: Hmm, just tried that with a request of my own, but I don’t have rights to touch the files which the webserver created and I’m not in the sudoer file so can’t boss it around either…
Edit 3: Added two simple scripts for the webserver to overcome the problem above. One can search for a string in the requests (e.g. email address) and lists the matching files. The other touches the a given filename (sets the date back one month) so that it jumps the queue. Note to hackers: need to probe for the url’s, access is restricted to two IP’s only 
Note to desperate users: no need to contact me, I don’t have the time or will to move you up the queue. I will only use these scripts to check if the whole map building chain is working.
Edit 4: Reduced the availability time of the maps from 48 to 42 hours. This will speedup the queue a bit.
Edit 5: My request that jumped the queue has completed and I received the email. So everything is working fine. Emu777, can you check your SPAM folders, maybe the emails got classified as spam…
