Andrew put up these helpful instructions. http://haiti.crisiscommons.org/gps/
Are there any changes recommended to that? I'm trying to put together a video on how to do this... won't be complete until at least tomorrow. Margie On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CrisisMappers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. > > -- Margie http://www.BaltimoreUrbanAg.org http://www.FarmersMarketVideo.org http://www.FriendlyCoffeehouse.org http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-5-views-recipes/book _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
