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

[Peter Freeman]

Thanks Richard,

I'm reading the pages now...I'll let you know what I figure out.

Peter

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On 11-02-26 09:29 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> 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
>
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