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 ;)) see response below: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Someoneelse <lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
Please provide tips and tricks in creating a garmin mapsource installer without the cgpmapper. I want it exclusively on opensource. Has anyone did this?
Which bit of the process is it that you're stuck on? I'm guessing that you may have used mkgmap to create one or more .IMG files and are looking for a way to wrap them together into a "gmapsupp.img" and send it to the device? I've done this already and it's OK.
If so, then I probably can't help as I've always cheated and used the free (as in beer but not speech) "sendmap20" on MS Windows from cGPSmapper to bundle .img files together and send them. This is what I do for the mapsource installer in the past. But I'm having problems lately. The map is installed in Mapsource, but some users reported they can't upload it in the device.
Also, what Garmin model are you interested in loading the resulting map on? Mostly nuvis and etrexes
Of the handheld GPSs, some have memory cards, some don't, and some are USB accessible and some aren't. If you've got one with a memory card in it and turn the USB interface on on the device you should be able to access the "Garmin" directory as a bit of mass storage as per:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Mass_Storage_Mode
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious there are also various suggestions here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mkgmap
and it, and its talk page, get updated pretty regularly for new Mkgmap features etc.
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