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
> 
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