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 <[email protected]> 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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