Hi, sorry to ask this here, but I have a device question. Does someone here use an ancient eTrex Vista (non c, non cx, non Hcx), and knows if mkgmap files can be transferred via serial port and be used on it? All information is highly welcome Jakob
Hallo, ich hatte das ziemlich baugleiche GPSMAP60, und da ging das mit seriell. Damals war Mapsource 6.13.3 aktuell. Und mit sendmap20 von www.cgpsmapper.com geht es garantiert. Momentan ist die website nicht erreichbar. Eine Kopie von sendmap20 kannst bei Bedarf von mir direkt bekommen. Das von mkgmap erzeugte Fileformat ist identisch mit dem originalen Garmin-format (non -NT, non -NTU) thomas -------------------------------------------------- Von: "Jakob Mühldorfer" <mail@jmuehldorfer.de> Datum: Samstag, 10. September 2016 03:24 An: <mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] eTrex Vista
Hi,
sorry to ask this here, but I have a device question. Does someone here use an ancient eTrex Vista (non c, non cx, non Hcx), and knows if mkgmap files can be transferred via serial port and be used on it? All information is highly welcome
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Perfekt, danke Dir! Sieht mir eigentlich nach einem sehr vernünftigen Gerät aus. Hast du mit QLandkarteGT erfahrung? Kann angeblich auch .img lesen und per seriess an das Gerät senden Am 10.09.2016 um 09:07 schrieb Thomas Morgenstern:
Hallo, ich hatte das ziemlich baugleiche GPSMAP60, und da ging das mit seriell. Damals war Mapsource 6.13.3 aktuell. Und mit sendmap20 von www.cgpsmapper.com geht es garantiert. Momentan ist die website nicht erreichbar. Eine Kopie von sendmap20 kannst bei Bedarf von mir direkt bekommen. Das von mkgmap erzeugte Fileformat ist identisch mit dem originalen Garmin-format (non -NT, non -NTU)
thomas -------------------------------------------------- Von: "Jakob Mühldorfer" <mail@jmuehldorfer.de> Datum: Samstag, 10. September 2016 03:24 An: <mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] eTrex Vista
Hi,
sorry to ask this here, but I have a device question. Does someone here use an ancient eTrex Vista (non c, non cx, non Hcx), and knows if mkgmap files can be transferred via serial port and be used on it? All information is highly welcome
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Jakob Mühldorfer <mail@jmuehldorfer.de> writes:
sorry to ask this here, but I have a device question. Does someone here use an ancient eTrex Vista (non c, non cx, non Hcx), and knows if mkgmap files can be transferred via serial port and be used on it? All information is highly welcome
I'm not sure if I'm being duplicative because my German is not so good (understatement!). I know of two ways to transfer maps to a serial port garmin. There is a program "sendmap" floating around, and I have only seen a binary for Linux. Also, Garmin's mapinstall/mapmanager/basecamp (or roadtrip) can do this, installing subsets of the map after you have loaded it. For the second way, on a mac use gmapibuilder to make a GMAPI format from the img open the gmapi to use mapinstall open manmanager and click a lot until you figure it out for sendmap: find a sendmap binary make an IMG run sendmail with the img and the serial port figure out the limit on IMG size repeat however, keep in mind that an etrex vista, not HC, probably has a very small area for maps. I had a GPS V that could do maps but not really load a big area (20 MB?), and that was with the proprietary data that had only roads and POIs, not what OSM has. So I do not think you are going to end up being happy....
Quick report: The maps generated with the latest mkgmap work quite nicely with the ancient Vista device Thanks Gerd for the recent patches to shrink maps further And thanks to Greg for pointing me towards "sendmap", which worked Jakob Am 11.09.2016 um 02:10 schrieb Greg Troxel:
Jakob Mühldorfer <mail@jmuehldorfer.de> writes:
sorry to ask this here, but I have a device question. Does someone here use an ancient eTrex Vista (non c, non cx, non Hcx), and knows if mkgmap files can be transferred via serial port and be used on it? All information is highly welcome I'm not sure if I'm being duplicative because my German is not so good (understatement!).
I know of two ways to transfer maps to a serial port garmin. There is a program "sendmap" floating around, and I have only seen a binary for Linux. Also, Garmin's mapinstall/mapmanager/basecamp (or roadtrip) can do this, installing subsets of the map after you have loaded it.
For the second way, on a mac
use gmapibuilder to make a GMAPI format from the img
open the gmapi to use mapinstall
open manmanager and click a lot until you figure it out
for sendmap:
find a sendmap binary
make an IMG
run sendmail with the img and the serial port
figure out the limit on IMG size
repeat
however, keep in mind that an etrex vista, not HC, probably has a very small area for maps. I had a GPS V that could do maps but not really load a big area (20 MB?), and that was with the proprietary data that had only roads and POIs, not what OSM has.
So I do not think you are going to end up being happy....
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