Lambertus, maybe take the FID for the name of the typ file: 20011.typ
About contours: Thorsten Kukuk has made a set of USA contours, see http://tk-osm.thkukuk.de
You can merge them with my osm combi tool (http://www.openfietsmap.nl/downloads/osm_combi) somehow
but I havenāt adapted my scripts to the new openfietsmap world wide lite version yet (which means that it will omit the 6344*.img index files automatically, so you have to do it yourself).
Indeed you have and I forgot, sorry about that. āRoadtripā is now everywhere updated to āBaseCamp/RoadTripā (as has MapSource) and the filename is changed to _macosx.zip.
Ok, but then the map is a generic one. āRoutable worldā as the original map is named isnāt really suitable anymore as the Openfietsmap lite is also world routableā¦
Please forgive my glaring ignorance, but I canāt find anything about how to test a gmapi file on Windows (or Linux).
At least you could put āOSMā in the name Since the name of the map is defined in the TDB file, it should be possible to define it at generation time so that it reflects the map selection the user madeā¦ It would be a lot easier for users that want to use several maps.
BaseCamp and recent versions of MapSource support the new gmap format as well. You have to put the gmap folder inside the gmapi folder (itās not a file, although it appears to be so for Mac users) into the folder C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\GARMIN\Maps (Vista/W7); then BC and MS are able to use the map. You could also install the gmap(i) with JaVaWa GMTK.
Iām able to load the .gmapi file into Garmin MapManager, but when I connect my Garmin Montana and open Garmin MapInstall to load it onto the GPS unit, MapInstall crashes. When I uninstall the .gmapi from the new site, MapInstall launches correctly again. When I install a .gmapi from the old site, no crash occurs.
Which version of MapInstall do you use? Did you choose a predefined country, or a custom selection? Maybe there is a conflict with another installed map; you can check that with JaVaWa GMTK: http://www.javawa.nl/gmtk_en.html
Iām using MapInstall 4.0.0, the latest version. I chose a custom selection on both the old and new sites: a single tile, MX-Agua Prieta. JaVaWa GMTK says:
File error: Faraday:Users:jonathan:Library:Application Support:Garmin:Maps:Generic routable.gmap:OSMTiles:63240000
Errors recoverable: No
Edit: downloading generic_tiles.zip and converting with JaVaWa MapConverter results in a .gmap file that I can install without causing any crashes or errors.
I checked myself: the MDR folder was created in the wrong place and with a wrong name; now it doesnāt match the entry in the file info.xml anymore. This seems not to happen with predifined map sets.
Some work to do for Lambertusā¦
Edit: Iāve got a command line Linux version of JaVaWa MapConverterā¦
Yes, I could add OSM in the name somewhere, however āOpenFietsmap Liteā doesnāt have OSM in it eitherā¦
I can also make the name user configurable, but why not make more things configurable , like the product id or series id? I would like to, eventually, if this is possible with precompiled tiles. But it would be yet another project and to be honest Iām currently not looking forward to implementing itā¦lotās of points of failures to handle.
I installed BaseCamp a few days ago on a Windows VM and it didnāt seem to recognise the gmapi folder as something it would happily read so I didnāt really try any of the files in itās subdirectories. Iāll try again.
Interesting Terms of use areā¦?
Edit: Ah, found the āvoorwaardenā button on your website. I donāt see any problems for using MapConverter for the maps, correct?
āOpenFietsmapā is a established name now (at least in The Netherlandsā¦), whereas āGeneric routableā is, well, very genericā¦
Changing the name and IDās isnāt difficult at all. The source code of mkgmap is a good starting point; only a bit overwhelming maybeā¦
The only thing you have to change is the TDB file; I can tell you exactly how to do it. Send me an email, itās easier for me to explain it in Dutch.
I got a sneak-preview of the OFM-lite by the courtesy of Ligfietser.
It looks good, but there is a strange thing happening in the city-center of Tallinn and Riga, but Iām afraid at more cities.
In Mapsource its is fine.
But on my Map 62 itās awfull. Is it a forest there?
Outside the city-center it is in mapsource OK.
But on the 62:
I transferred the map from Mapsource to the 62, but the result is the same.
I think I know what the problem is, But Iām to ignorant having a solution.
Looking in Potlatch I see in the center buildings, but without a tag Residential area
Outside the center there are Residential areas.
It looks that in the .IMGfile all areas without a tag become dark green. Outside the city it is not a problem, but in a citycenter it looks a bit stupid.
Iām just started with OSM und Garmin. I want to have the maps of Germany and Mallorca in Basecamp.
So I downloaded both one of a time.
First I did not know about MapManager, so I just copied the unzipped āRoadtripā folder to recources, which worked fine for Mallorca. With Germany it did not. I found out, the two maps have the same values in info.xml, only the names differ between āOSM World Routable (01-04-2012)ā and āOSM World Routableā.
I googled and found MapManager and deleted the maps I manually copied to the program dir.
The problem is somewhat the same. Whatever map I install first, it is there. The second one is installed fine - MM says - but never shows up in MM itself. If I delete the map and try the other one first, this one is there, the other one not.
Is there any way to install two downloaded maps independently?
I see that you are a Mac user. Although it works, copying maps into the application bundle of BaseCamp is a bad idea. As soon as you install an update of BaseCamp, you will loose your maps this wayā¦ MapManager puts the maps in the place where they belong (in {username}/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Maps to be precise).
Chainging the FID is the way to go; not with MapSetToolKit (because itās a Windows program) but with JaVaWa GMTK (āJavawaā isnāt very descriptive, since Iām offering some 15 different applications) http://www.javawa.nl/gmtk_en.html