how to qlandkarte or qlandkartegt
speaking of sea polygons and the numerous test builds... 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), 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). what works best for you? for example it seems that i can load a tile in qlandkarte, but loading a second tile does not make it appear. any hints very much appreciated! due to the strange behaviour of qlandkarte (or me not using them properly?), i always copy the final gmapsupp.img to my GPSr... thank you, rj
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
steve, the resources/help/en/options file states that the --tdbfile makes mkgmap write a .tdb file. but i always got a .tdb file, even though i never used this option. is this option only necessary when one merges .img files, and superfluous when processing .osm files? On 09-08-27 08:33:29 CEST, Carsten Schwede wrote:
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)
carsten, thank you for your hints regarding qlandkarte! once i got over this initial hurdle, qlandkartegt started making fun. i might even use it to geotiff some scans of paper maps (as long the islands i'm gonna visit the next weeks are flooded on the garmin :-) best, rj
On 27/08/09 17:50, Robert Joop wrote:
steve, the resources/help/en/options file states that the --tdbfile makes mkgmap write a .tdb file. but i always got a .tdb file, even though i never used this option. is this option only necessary when one merges .img files, and superfluous when processing .osm files?
You always get one if there is more than one file (of whatever kind) being processed. I should just make it always produce the file and drop the option. There used to be a slight justification for this behaviour because in qlandkarte you could load a single .img all by itself without a .tdb or overview map, but now in qlandkartegt you always need one and the same is true of mapsource. Regards, ..Steve
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