Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
Hi
mb.setAreaName(areaName != null ? areaName : "Area " + info.getMapname());
in GmapsuppBuilder sets the area name when none is given.
To me the behavior reported by Charlie Ferrero is more or less what I was expecting. There is no reason to expect a tool like sendmap would have the same defaults as mkgmap. My GPS has no external memory so I can not test myself.
Perhaps Charlie Ferrero needs to try is setting the --area-name to what he wants his map named?
What you say is absolutely correct technically. The only question was since area-name is not contained in anything that is given to MapSource, when mapsource sends a map to the device it can't use it.
However, I just remembered that when you are uploading maps with mapsource you get a chance to type in your own name for the map set. That name defaults to family-name. If it can be confirmed that this is the meaning of area-name then I will leave it in and document it as such, but probably let it default to family-name instead of 'Area ...'.
OK, I've tested things now and set both --area-name and --family-name. When I transfer the gmapsupp.img file manually to the SD card the name of each tile is: [description], [area-name], [date of creation] If I transfer using sendmap, then the name of each tile is: [description, [family-name], [date of creation] Not being familiar with diff, my efforts to diff the two files were futile, but seeing as they're so small (86/87KB) I can easily send them to the list if that's allowed - maybe someone else can test how they're different? For starters, the sendmap version is 1 KB smaller than the manually-transferred file, which suggests that it actually *shrinks* the file before transferring it. -- Charlie