Hi,
On Mon, Dec 17, Gerd Petermann wrote: > Hi all, > > I've never tried it, but my understanding was that you can have the same tile > (mapid) in two different gmapsupp files. > E.g. you might create a tile containing an area around Hamburg and put that > tile into a gmapsupp for Germany as well as another > one for Lower Saxony. > If that is right it would explain why you have to make sure that the content > of two tiles with the same id doesn't differ. Correct, this works, but only if the tile is 100% identical for both maps. Or in other words: create a big map and select tiles from this map to build smaller maps. So the same as if you select tiles in mapsource from a bigger map and transfer them to the GPS device. Thorsten > @Brad: I think the current documentation about the meaning of all those names > and ids is not perfect because the authors of mkgmap > were still learning when the docu was created, and it's an ongoing process ;-) > Feel free to improve the docu (post a patch or maybe a new version of one or > more files). > > Gerd > > ________________________________________ > Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-boun...@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von brad > <bradha...@fastmail.com> > Gesendet: Montag, 17. Dezember 2018 01:47 > An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] splitter, mapid > > One thing I think I missed, is that each tile on a garmin device needs a > unique mapid. A different family-id and mapname for each gmap is not > sufficient. Does this sound correct? > > I'd been downloading US states from Geofabrik, creating maps with unique > family-id, mapname, every name & id that seemed important, (with > mkgmap) but when I put them on the Garmin they all wouldn't show up. > Only when I went back to the splitter step & used a different mapid did > they all show up. > > Sometimes I'm not too good at reading directions, did I overlook this > someplace? > > Brad > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
