[OSM-talk] Problem sending a mkgmap map to Garmin GPS

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Sunday 28 Oct 2007 13:01, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:54:32PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > Sorry half asleep... forgot I had to specify the port (/dev/ttyS0).
> > However now it's reporting an invalid .img file. This is with the latest
> > revision (313). Files (source .osm and .img) are at
> > http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/img.tar.bz2 if anyone wants to take
> > a look.
>
> I took a look at the .img file and the reason it is invalid is that the
> first eight bytes are not all zero which they normally should be:
>
>         10 0A 02 00  00 F4 10 03
>
> Now as to how it got like that I don't know, when I run mkgmap-r313 on the
> supplied .osm file I get a working file.  The only differences being those
> first eight bytes and also date fields which you would expect to be
> different.
>
> Perhaps sendmap did that, and now I think about it a bit more, I tried to
> use the linux version of sendmap months ago and I think it overwrote the
> beginning of the file if it was given particular arguments.
>
> ..Steve

Hi Steve, ok will try it on windows tomorrow and see if I have more luck.

Thanks,
Nick