>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Eichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Oliver,
Oliver> that all has nothing to do with engineering. Let me apologise if my comment sounded too rude :-( It was not my intention at all :-/ Oliver> Copy protection is a legal issue. Not a technical one. I did not complain about it 'cause you kindly explained everything to my in our private exchange. Oliver> There is no sense in rendering *osm files as they are not Oliver> supported by any devices at all. If you want to render OSM use Oliver> their tools. There is more than one. I did not say or ask about 'rendering' but "there is no support to import free & popular *.osm files", i.e. 'importing' and not 'loading'. Oliver> If you want to deal with Garmin, *img is the format. Right, and that's why I complain(ed) not being able to import them in QlandkarteGT. Oliver> To split a gmapsupp.img is hacking. I understand. Oliver> To split gmapsupp.img supplied by OSM is not really needed. Really? And how can one import them into the application? Pls. visit e.g. http://emexes.powweb.com/osm/download.html and dl e.g. http://emexes.powweb.com/osm/OSM-Austria-2008-08-14.img.zip Can you load it into Qlandkarte? Similar thing with free maps at http://www.osm4you.com/ which are prepared with mkgmap. They come in two flavours: as single gmapsupp.img and as several *.img files along with *.tdb. I tried to load them and/or creat myself with mkgmap, but in both cases I get the same result: "Bad position format. Must be: [N|S] ddd mm.sss [W|E] ddd mm.sss" Moreover, I found out the following comment at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Nils which says: " Latest img does not work on garmin colorado Hello. I've tried downloading Central Europe .img three or four times, my colleague tried to do that as well but downloaded .img does not work on Garmin Colorado (previous versions used to work). By "does not work" I mean Colorado does not recognise the .img file: does not complain but does not use it. QLandkarte cannot open the .img file too." So, at the end, there are problems loading OSM prepared maps in Qlandkarte and those are, according to my present knowledge, one of the best sources for free maps, i.e. market for Qlandkarte which cannot show protected maps due to copyright reasons. Oliver> The wine developers have spent 15 years of their spare time to Oliver> help out if everything failes. I spent more than 2 years of my Oliver> spare time to help Garmin users on Linux. The developers of GDAL Oliver> and Proj4 have spent around 9 years to build free public Oliver> libraries for geospatial operations. I appreciate all the efforts of open-source developers. Believe me, I'm using Linux 10yrs and things were not always as smooth as today, even with the most simple thing as writing in one's native language ;) Oliver> If you don't like the situation, try to match these times to Oliver> improve things. Opensource is not free beer. Even if many think Oliver> of it like that. It's the freedom to do things like you want Oliver> them to be done. It's a community that helps each other. You pay Oliver> in work load for that. There is no such thing like a free lunch. Nobody asked for a free lunch - it was just critical remark that new Qlandkarte is missing some potentially useful feature which was present in earlier release, let's say it smelled like some 'regression' 'cause "Blind uncle is better than no uncle." :-) Oliver> It will. It's used to create all these OSM map collection you Oliver> find in the net. If Croatia is still missing, take the bait and Oliver> maintain a periodic build from the data base. That will do a Oliver> difference for sure. There is no problem that Croatia is missing in OSM collection (although it can be surely improved), but that I cannot load those maps in Qlandkarte as elaborated above. If you can help me in this regard, I'll greatly appreciate it. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------
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