Felixm Garmin USB Mass Storage is supported since more than a year. You should get an up-to-date version ;)
And selecting tiles from several maps, to create a single gmapsupp.img is an integral part of QLGT since the very beginning. Oliver > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013 um 09:48 Uhr > Von: "Felix Hartmann" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Qlandkartegt-users] problem with garmin device connection > > It would be great if you could simply set (Garmin ) USB - Mass Storage. > Most people are on newer units anyhow by now. > > Then there would be "no more" work to do, than implementing the file > system structure. Another great addition could be to integrate > mkgmap.jar in order to create gmapsupp.img with a graphical tile > selection. Handling mkgmap.jar would be quite easy (only parameters to > set would be short-mapname, long-mapname, and a tickbox on index > creation, plus maybe copy forward the typ-file selector window (however > current typ-file to be use would be fine too, and a box to enter the > amount of avaible Ram if index creation is activated for Java). > > Right now besides Mapsource and Basecamp I know of no program, which is > able to select tiles. (but it won't be more than 1-2 years, until an osm > mkgmap created map of Germany or France, will break the 4GB barrier I > expect). > (mkgmap call would be: java -jar -Xmx%RAM%M > mkgmap.jar--family-id=%read_from_map_by_qlgt% %index yes/no% > %--show-profiles=1 yes/no ---if contourlines available% > --description="%short-name%" --series-name="%long-name%" > --family-name="%long-name%" --gmapsupp %"selected .img tiles"% %.typ-file% ) > > > However more basic and important than sending maps, would be integrating > the usb file structure of newer garmin GPS. > On 10.06.2013 14:11, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > > Hi Werner, > > > > It looks like you run QLGT on Windows. On this platform, nobody has > > taken the time to port QLGT's USB drivers, so if you must access your > > GPS via USB, you are out of luck. Maybe you feel the urge to do the > > porting yourself? On the other hand, there are external programs like > > gpsbabel or gpstrans that could handle the transfer of files. Google is > > your friend here. > > > > If you can access your GPS as mass storage like an USB stick however, > > you should be able to copy the files to/from the correct subdirectory > > on that "disk". Unfortunately, only newer device can do that, old ones > > like my GPSmap76 don't know mass storage mode. > > > > Hope this helps > > Herbert > > > > -- > keep on biking and discovering new trails > > Felix > openmtbmap.org & www.velomap.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
