Hi On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:59:23AM +0800, maning sambale wrote:
A bit of background, I make Garmin maps for the Philippines and distribute them free as a way to popularize OSM and hopefully recruit more Filipino mappers. The usual request for potential users is a mapsource installer many of them wouldn't bother tinkering with anything other than double-click exe and upload the map from mapsource. Personally, I don't use mapsource (OSM have better tools ;))
You might want to ask Lambertus who runs the OSM forum. Probably best to write to the Garmin map specific forum http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=26 He creates installers for the map sets, see: http://garmin.na1400.info/ The installer links are Windows executables that install with a double click. I don't know if his method uses all open-source tools though. To create your own installer you could consider using WiX [http://wix.sourceforge.net/] It would be good if we could make mkgmap create the needed XML file that could then be fed into WiX. ..Steve