On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:41:42PM +0200, WanMil wrote:
I have created a short HowTo in the wiki for first time users: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/How_to_create_a_map
Thanks your the great work, WanMil!
I think that's a good thing for first time users because the other wiki pages contain a bit too much information if you are using mkgmap for the first time.
One thing that might be too much information is character encodings. The wiki page does not mention them and does not include a --code-page option. Perhaps this could be a link to the more advanced documentation? Or could --code-page=1252 be a reasonable "default" worth mentioning?
Is --code-page=1252 the default setting of mkgmap? If not it should be added to the options on the wiki page. I want to keep the article as short as possible because it should be a first "HowTo" without too much information overhead. But maybe it's worth to add some hints about further configuration steps to the "Tweak your map" section.
I am embarrassed for not doing that much recently, and do not really feel entitled to ask this: How difficult would it be to write the address index information in the device format, eliminating the need for MapSource?
I don't know. Steve might be able to estimate how much work it will be to fix that. The work to do is to create a map including gmapsupp.img, install it in Mapsource, upload it to the device and compare the mkgmap created gmapsupp.img and the MapSource created gmapsupp.img. Probably that's easy but the non easy part is to understand the differences... WanMil
Best regards,
Marko