Hi Peter, try to select "Openstreetmap" from the "Stream" maps tab.
HTH Helmut Am 09.07.2013 04:10, schrieb Peter Evans: > I am a complete NooB to QLandKarte GT, my Garmin GPS device and indeed > anything map-related other than (i) what people used to buy on folded > paper and (ii) extremely elementary Google Map use. > > I installed QLandKarte GT (may I call it QLK?) on my computer > (CrunchBang, i.e. Debian). No obvious problem there. The program > starts up, with no error message. Unsurprisingly, there's no map (I'm > told "no map"). > > The QLK's "quickstart" page at Sourceforge says that to see a map on my > screen: > > 1. Select Map(F1) at the top of the toolview to activate the maps tab below. > 2. Double click "--- OSM ---" in the maps list > > The first part works. The second: I don't see anything that looks like > a maps list, and I don't see "--- OSM ---" anywhere. > > Common sense (hah!) says that I should "load" a map (File|Load map). > I've tried this. First, I got Open Street Map to generate a map from a > number of rectangles of Japan. After a few hours of generation, the > website offered me a number of download options. I chose > "openfietsmap_lite_tiles.zip (Compressed file that contains the tiles > and overview map. This is useful for applications like Qlandkarte and > Linux users.)" I tried loading that, but got "Failed to load file:" > (nothing more specific, such as "Unknown file format:"). I looked > inside for what might be an index file, tried two or three, but got > the same result. > > A friend pointed me to http://tmz.skr.jp/data/gmap.html , where I'd > find a ZIP of a single, huge IMG. I tried loading the IMG, but again > got "Failed to load file:". > > Perhaps I'm missing something that's very obvious . . . but what? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
