You might also try to run the exe using wine on Linux.  Openmtbmap provides exe 
as well that runs under wine like a charm.

BR
Gunther



> Am 12.05.2015 um 19:11 schrieb Kay F. Jahnke <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Am 12.05.2015 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Price:
>> 
>> I have a garmin gpsmap 62 on which I am trying to load some topographic
>> data for the state of Utah in the US. I have found some sources on
>> gpsfiledepot.com The files there can be downloaded either in a .tgz
>> format, which contains a complex directory hierarchy with map tiles (I
>> think this is the .gmapi format, with a .typ file in the main
>> directory), or in a windows executable, which installs the maps directly
>> to basecamp on a windows computer.
> 
> I suppose the exe file would be a standard self-extracting archive to 
> deploy a garmin map?
> 
> Try opening and unpacking the exe with ark as a RAR archive. If that 
> works, you have all the individual map components. You can then use 
> gmaptool to create a gmapsupp.img (The combined image to use with 
> qmapshack and also with the garmin device).
> 
>> I borrowed a friend's windows computer and can see that the maps load
>> fine there.  I would like to be able to work with them myself, though. I
>> am running qlandkarte-gt 1.8.1 on arch linux, and also have qmapshack
>> 1.2.2.
> 
> If above procedure works, you don't need windows or basecamp.
> 
>> Is there a tool I can use to get these maps into a format that one of
>> those programs can understand? And once I've done that, do you have any
>> suggestions for getting the maps into my garmin device?
> 
> Both qmapshack and the GPS device use the gmaspupp.img format.
> 
> Kay
> 
>> Thank you,
>> matt
>> 
>> 
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