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:

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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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maning sambale schrieb:

Hi, Please provide tips and tricks in creating a garmin mapsource installer without the cgpmapper. I want it exclusively on opensource. Has anyone did this? -- cheers, maning

Hi, maning, Actually i know 2 ways to do it, but both use cgpsmapper(freeversion). Way 1: -Use ezMS V103 (http://www.malfreemaps.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=909) to install the mapset in Mapsource . cgpsmapper is delivered together with ezMS -use Innosetup(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php) for creation of the installer Way 2: -create a gmapsupp.img(however you want) gmaptool also can create a gmapsupp.img -Use gmaptool (http://www.anpo.republika.pl/download.html#gmaptool)=> use Function SPLIT of gmaptool - "create-files for mapsource)=> as result you get all files for installing the mapset to mapsource. Maybe you have to set your pathes in the install.bat you get from gmaptool gmaptool requieres also free version of cgpsmapper - Use Innosetup for creation of the installer Innosetup: there is also a GUI, called ISTool(http://www.jrsoftware.org/is3rdparty.php) available Also you can take another Tool for creation of the installer if you prefer. cheers Gert

To create your own installer you could consider using WiX [http://wix.sourceforge.net/] It would be good if we could make mkgmap create the needed XML file that could then be fed into WiX.

I noticed by running one of the installers that it is the nullsoft installer [http://nsis.sourceforge.net]. This is also open source. It looks quite good as you are able to generate windows installers on linux with it. ..Steve