Comments on: Send Maps to GPS with Mkgmap (Cross-Platform)

By: extremecarver

extremecarver — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:26:59 +0000

Well current is 1905 – so it seems to be really up to date. (1903 is 6 days old)

By: pete dawgg

pete dawgg — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:53 +0000

thx for the info, i just checked the versions:
in portage (gentoo’s “package-manager”) it’s mkgmap-1903 (which dates from march 2008 according to its manpage), and the latest stable version linked to from osm is mkgmap-1867.
check both in http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/snapshots/ where it just says “March …” which i guess is March 2008.
i tested both versions of mkgmap and running the command (with mkgmap …. and java -jar mkgmap …) and they both work.

THX AGAIN FOR THOSE GREAT MAPS!

By: extremecarver

extremecarver — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:33:55 +0000

Well then you probably depend on dated mkgmap versions, which may cause trouble depending on how old the bundled mkgmap is. If you cannot call mkgmap via java, most likely you don’t have java jdk (best use Sun Java) properly installed.

By: pete dawgg

pete dawgg — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:59:55 +0000

i'm on gentoo and just could get the windoze-stuff to run with wine, but it is possible to create the gmapsupp.img with the program mkgmap directly (which is installable via portage), because calling the mkgmap with java did not work, either. i just copied the command from this website and ran mkgmap with it directly:
mkgmap –family-id=9999 –family-name=openmtbmap –gmapsupp 6*.img clas*.TYP
it put the gmapsupp.img in the same dir and it seems to run on my legend hcx (did not test it muchm though)
THX FOR THE GREAT WORK!

By: tehdog

tehdog — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:14:52 +0000

original command didn't work for me in Ubuntu 10.04, it just didn't show up on my Garmin eTrex Vista HCX
but using
java -Xmx512M -jar mkgmap.jar --gmapsupp map/6*.img map/clas*.TYP --family-name=openmtbmap --family-id=6365
it worked. Thanks!!

By: fw_crocodile

fw_crocodile — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:17:35 +0000

Hi,

I think you should add some options to the suggested command.

At least, I suggest the following:

–family-name=openmtbmap (This will display in the selection list on the GPS device)
–family-id=6367 (For example is the id of clasit.TYP file, I didn’t check the others)

Specifiyng the family id is necessary (at least in my case) to have the TYP file working on linux, so it would be usefull too the specify somewhere which are the ids of the various TYP file).

Thank’s for your great work.
Anselmo

By: Andreas Michael

Andreas Michael — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:52:31 +0000

Hello, the java command above
“java -Xmx512M -jar mkgmap.jar –gmapsupp 6*.IMG clas*.TYP”
should be
“java -Xmx512M -jar mkgmap.jar –gmapsupp 6*.img srtmdbw.TYP”
in my opinion, because e.g. Linux is case sensitive, so .IMG is different from .img. At least the bavarian Map uses lowerCase fileExtensions of the img-Files .

regards and keep up the good work, Andy

By: tholm

tholm — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:52:54 +0000

Did you disconnect your USB drive correctly from your box. I had the same problem and the safety removing of the USB volume solves the problem. Wait until the removing process finished. It needs some time so please be patient.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:31:24 +0000

Hi,

When I do the mkgmap command and move it to my garmin etrex HCx, it completly ignores the TYP files (displaying it the way it displayes the base map).
Can this be corrected?

Thanks!
Nathan

By: GP4Flo

GP4Flo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:03:14 +0000

If I try to run mkgmap in MacOSx, it somehow doesn’t include the TYP file. I always get a yellow map (basic Garmin layout) in my GPS device. Does anyone have a clue what’s wrong here?