Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I will have to try this with my 76csx > I tried with a Vista HCx and didn't get it to work. Doesn't work with my 76csx either, which is fairly recent firmware i think. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin
Bill Ricker writes: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, swanilli wrote: > >> I have just accidentally discovered that it is possible to have >> multiple gmapsupp.img files on my Garmin Oregon 300. Since I have not >> seen this method mentioned anywhere else here it is. > I will have to try this with my 76csx > > Does it have to be loaded as gmapsupp.img and used once before each > renaming? > > I have been placing extra *.img in named subdirs and copying to Garmin/ to > select, but being able to switch without a usb connect would be much better, > since states in New England are so small, I can drive across a corner of NH > or VT in not much longer than than it took to swap I tried with a Vista HCx and didn't get it to work. I have 1.3 coping strategies: build my own maps of new england with splitter and mkgmap. create GMAPI format files. install into roadtrip on a mac. (script on request, or see the mkgmap-dev archives.) use garmin mapinstall to merge my tiles, proprietary maps, and free-beer garmin maps from the web (eg. NWTrails). (sometimes) just put the gmapsupp.img with all of new england on the device, renaming as Bill is doing, but I don't bother with subdirs. All of new england is only 100M. I could put it up for download, but my map has broken interstate routing since I merged 6 cloudmade extracts. There are also ways w/o garmin software to merge multiple .img files into one. sendmap can do it, and mkgmap might as well but I'm not sure. pgpb6iISFIecd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, swanilli wrote: >> >> I have just accidentally discovered that it is possible to have >> multiple gmapsupp.img files on my Garmin Oregon 300. Since I have not >> seen this method mentioned anywhere else here it is. Actually, with the latest firmware for the Oregon, you don't have to go through all of that bother and have multiple .img files loaded simultaneously. See the release notes for beta 2.99 of the Oregon firmware[1]. Don't actually load beta 2.99, use the release 3.10 version[2]. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > I will have to try this with my 76csx Unfortunately I don't think that any of the older Garmin models have that capability. The Colorado and the Dakota may have it (at least in beta form). [1] http://www.gpsfix.net/garmin-oregon-beta-299/ [2] http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/Versions#toc14 -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-newbies] Multiple gmapsupp.img files on Garmin
I will have to try this with my 76csx Does it have to be loaded as gmapsupp.img and used once before each renaming? I have been placing extra *.img in named subdirs and copying to Garmin/ to select, but being able to switch without a usb connect would be much better, since states in New England are so small, I can drive across a corner of NH or VT in not much longer than than it took to swap Bill On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, swanilli wrote: > I have just accidentally discovered that it is possible to have > multiple gmapsupp.img files on my Garmin Oregon 300. Since I have not > seen this method mentioned anywhere else here it is. > > Problem: I regularly update my local OSM data (since I am in Australia > from http://www.osmaustralia.org/garmin.php) but I also have other > maps, notably topographic, on the Garmin uit that I don't change. If I > upload the combined gmapsupp.img using MapSource it takes forever. > What would be nice would be to only upload the tiles that have changed > but the conventional advice is that there can only be one gmapsupp.img > file per drive i.e. one in the base unit and one on the micro SD card. > > Method: > > 1. Upload to Garmin unit the unchanging maps. This creates (or > overwrites) a file called gmapsupp.img. > > 2. Disconnect the Garmin unit, switch on, then open and check the map > uploaded. > > 3. Reconnect the Garmin unit to your computer and locate the > gmapsupp.img just created. > > 4. Change the file name to anything else e.g. gmapsupp-topo.img. > > 5. Disconnect the unit and switch on again. The original maps will > still be there. > > 6. Reconnect and upload a new set of maps. This will create a new > gmapsupp.img file but not overwrite the first lot of maps. > > 7. Repeat the steps above, changing the file name each time. > > 8. To overwrite data, change the name of the file back to gmapsupp.img > and upload new maps. (No sure if the file can't just be deleted but I > have been getting the "The map set is approximately nnMB, but only > nnnMB is available in the destination. Please select fewer maps and > try again." message from MapSource.) > > > There seems to be no limit to the number of files that can be handled > in this way. I have 16 at present making it very quick to add or > update existing data. > > ___ > newbies mailing list > newb...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
