On Monday, 17. November 2008 22:30:15 Gour wrote: > >>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Eichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Oliver, > > Oliver> wine should be fine . > > No offense, but I consider it as bad-engineering - QLandkarte cannot > display copy-protected maps, there is no support to import free & popular > *.osm files while using pre-made files available as gmapsupp.img require > use of Windoze application :-/
Hi Gour, that all has nothing to do with engineering. Copy protection is a legal issue. Not a technical one. There is no sense in rendering *osm files as they are not supported by any devices at all. If you want to render OSM use their tools. There is more than one. If you want to deal with Garmin, *img is the format. To split a gmapsupp.img is hacking. To split gmapsupp.img supplied by OSM is not really needed. > > > I managed to split the map, but if it requires using of Wine, then one > bother with Linux software at all? The wine developers have spent 15 years of their spare time to help out if everything failes. I spent more than 2 years of my spare time to help Garmin users on Linux. The developers of GDAL and Proj4 have spent around 9 years to build free public libraries for geospatial operations. If you don't like the situation, try to match these times to improve things. Opensource is not free beer. Even if many think of it like that. It's the freedom to do things like you want them to be done. It's a community that helps each other. You pay in work load for that. There is no such thing like a free lunch. Thus if you want a generic Linux gmapsupp splitter, get the Garmin IMG spec from sf.net, look at my code in CGarminExport and write that thing. If you want to load such a blob like gmapsupp.img in QLandkarte GT look at the code in CMapTDB and create your CMapImg class from it. > > I'll investigate if mkgmap can help... It will. It's used to create all these OSM map collection you find in the net. If Croatia is still missing, take the bait and maintain a periodic build from the data base. That will do a difference for sure. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ QLandkarte-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkarte-users
