Thanks for the replies. I think I will first try to download the contour lines from openmtbmap.org. Generating my own seems a bit too much work for just the holiday.
Regards, Frank 2011/5/17 Minko <[email protected]>: > The easiest way is to download already made strm contourlines from > openmtbmap.org or compterteddy: > http://openmtbmap.org/download/#contourlines > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Computerteddy#H.C3.B6henlinien_von_Europa > > If you want to include them into your maps to make altitude profiles it will > be a bit more difficult but it's possible. > > Select the tiles that you need, lets say 12345678.img 12345679.img etc. > Include them to your mkgmap.args list, make sure that those contour img's > have a higher tile number. With the mkgmap option show-profiles=1 you can > make altitude profiles. It's also important that the zoom levels are the > same. You can see which zoom levels are used with gpsmapedit. With this > programm you also can modify the tile numbers and add more zoom levels if > needed. Save the edited img as mp file. For my Benelux maps the only way I > can see the contour lines in the osm map is when mkgmap compiles the img from > the mp files: > > mapname: 10010057 > description: NL-Haarlem > input-file: c:\Downloads\Benelux\10010057.osm.gz > > # contours > > mapname: 10010101 > description: Openfietsmap (contours) > input-file: contours\10010101.mp > > > Sometimes it works if you use input-file: contours\10010101.img alone without > the line "mapname: 10010101" but since I use everytime an upgraded version of > mkgmap I have to process the contour files every time again, oherwise they > are not visible (I see only the altitude numbers, not the lines). > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
