Yes, I agree, ael. I did manage to get an updated map of Thailand compiled into a gmapsupp.img file and it did contain the changes I had made a few days ago. It was cool. But it took 4 hours of command line fiddling, changing environment variables, etc., stuff I used to do back in the old days of MS-DOS, days I'd rather leave behind for good <g>
Shoot, then once I got that part done I started reading about "bounds" and using other programs like Osmosis. Egads! I suppose I could write scripts (batch files) to semi-automate the tedium but, as you say, it's a big investment in time, time I'd rather use extending the map of Thailand. I will be happy to leave the heavy lifting to Lambertus and just take fresh downloads of northern Thailand when they become available. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:54 PM, ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 05:02:04PM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: > > (as has already been mentioned) if you're already using Lambertus' > > maps than I'd be tempted to start creating your own using mkgmap > > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap>. It would allow you to > > change what gets displayed a little at a time, so that at no stage > > do you end up with a blank screen thinking "I wonder why that didn't > > work". There's lots of info on the help set - search for "mkgmap" > > or "garmin". > > Chipping in here as someone who has just started using mkgmap, I must > say that the documentation is extremely obscure in places. Some > sections of the help in mkgmap --help=options seem to be written in > something not entirely unlike English. > > Following the documented examples produces maps which don't support > searching. Googling shows that this has been a common problem in the > past, but the current documentation suggests that it will just work. But > it doesn't. > > I imagine that with enough persistance and reading many more documents, > it will eventually become clear, but I think a newbie needs to be warned > that mkgmap needs a very large investment in time to understand how to > use it effectively. > > ael > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
