Here's a message I got from Craig Luecke who's working with a SAR team on the ground in Haiti. It's obviously not obvious enough how one should go about installing Garmin maps of Haiti on GPS devices.
It seems that it would also be easier if we provided a MapSource installer for these maps, there's one here: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php in the public domain that works with the NullSoft install framework which can be built in an automated fashion on Linux with Wine. Could someone look into setting that up with the .img files that are now being generated? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 15:53 Subject: Re: I replied to your message on the OpenStreetMap wiki To: Craig Luecke <[email protected]> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 15:27, Craig Luecke <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team. > > Need assistance. Can you give me instructions on which file to download and > how to install it into MapSource? > > Just noticed how much information has been updated. Looked over the Wiki and > having a hard time finding the instructions on how to use. There's some info here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#Using_OpenStreetMap_data You should get this file: http://labs.geofabrik.de/haiti/latest.garmin-gmapsupp.zip Then put your GPS in a mode so that it shows up as a disk on your computer, and then copy the gmapsupp.img file to the Garmin folder on the GPS, and create it if it doesn't exist. Then the map should be installed. Usually with commercial maps you'd use MapSource but nobody has made a mapsource installer for the Haiti maps yet. Would such an installer help or is this sufficient? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
