Hi there Robert, Robert Joop schrieb:
i'm a little confused as on which program to use (to view the result without copying it to a garmin GPSr) and how - qlandkarte or qlandkartegt (which recently appeared in debian sid),
Use QLandkarteGT, its the newer program.
and which files to load (or import?), single tile .img (from mkgmap), gmapsupp.img or the .tdb from mkgmap, or the gmapsupp.img from gmt (as the linux gmaptool is named).
In QLandkarteGT you can import whole mapsets including tdb and overview img- tile. If you have only some img tiles, you must first create a tdb and a overview map for proper loading this maps. (java -jar mkgmap.jar --tdbfile *.img)
for example it seems that i can load a tile in qlandkarte, but loading a second tile does not make it appear.
The loading of single img tiles is not possible anymore in the newer versions of QLandkarteGT.
due to the strange behaviour of qlandkarte (or me not using them properly?), i always copy the final gmapsupp.img to my GPSr...
With QLandkarteGT you can combine more than one map into a gmapsupp.img. -- Viele Gruesse Computerteddy