Hi,
Yes this is a nifty tool. I am experimenting on this one for a couple
of weeks now generating contours (10 meter interval) for garmin
devices. So far I was able to generate the whole Philippines from
SRTM. Anyone who wants one I can give it. The problem is, it is a
.NET based apps (with dependencies on cgpsmapper). I had mixed
results before with using mono so I had to use a virtualbox for
groundtruth to work easily. Moreover, free cgpsmapper doesn't support
road routing so I had to use mkgmap for roads while groundtruth for
contour generation which is OK since you had to generate garmin
contours only one.
Make sure you have a lot of RAM and disk space allotted for your vbox
to produce the whole Philippine contour.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote:
Hi All.
Been a bit quiet recently as I went off to UK and France for a couple of
weeks. Just got back in the middle of the typhoon, and have been catching up
with work since then.
Anyway today I had a bit of spare time, and found myself browsing the OSM
site. I found some software called GroundTruth which looked interesting, so I
thought I'd share it.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GroundTruth
It will apparently make Garmin maps of a given area. It will also make maps
in image format as well, like the OSM export function. However, what I found
interesting, is that you can play with the way it renders the data, by using
a Map Rules file. The examples given on the wiki are for eg driving maps,
cycling maps, hiking maps, and you can choose whether or not to include
contour data etc. But you can also write your own map rules files, so you can
customise how the data displays to your own taste. There are a few user
examples of this as well.
It seemed like worth mentioning, as a couple of questions on the list this
year have been related to this custom rendering function. I don't have a use
for it right now, but I'm thinking ...
Jim
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