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 > > -- > datalude: information security > e: j...@datalude.com > Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 920 912 5830 > Hong Kong: +852 6840 6693 > w: http://www.datalude.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
