[Talk-ca] Building Mapsets for my Garmin GPSmap 76CSx

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Peter Freeman <petersfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my quest to become a total non-Microsoft product user, the last remaining
> tie to Windows is my need to create Mapsets and load them into my Garmin
> GPSmap 76CSx.  Currently, I am using Mapsource and MapSetToolkit to build
> mapsets that are made up of OSM, Ibycus Topo and other maps.  I download my
> routable maps from http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php
>
> Could you point me to the Linux tools I need to perform these functions:
>
> Group a number of .img files into a mapset
> Group a number of mapsets (OSM, Ibycus Topo, etc.) together
> Create a single gmapsupp.img file to copy over to the Garmin folder in my
> MicroSD card
>
> In Widows, I had played with MapEdit and other tools, but I am now looking
> for Linux equivalents


http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

and especially

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap

will put you on a good path.

Best regards,
Richard