[OSM-talk] We need better docs on installing Haiti Garmin maps + a MapSource installer

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Here's a message I got from Craig Luecke who's working with a SAR team
on the ground in Haiti. It's obviously not obvious enough how one
should go about installing Garmin maps of Haiti on GPS devices.

It seems that it would also be easier if we provided a MapSource
installer for these maps, there's one here:
http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php in the public domain that works
with the NullSoft install framework which can be built in an automated
fashion on Linux with Wine. Could someone look into setting that up
with the .img files that are now being generated?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 15:53
Subject: Re: I replied to your message on the OpenStreetMap wiki
To: Craig Luecke <rocklandusa at gmail.com>


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 15:27, Craig Luecke <rocklandusa at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team.
>
> Need assistance. Can you give me instructions on which file to download and
> how to install it into MapSource?
>
> Just noticed how much information has been updated. Looked over the Wiki and
> having a hard time finding the instructions on how to use.

There's some info here:

   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#Using_OpenStreetMap_data

You should get this file:

   http://labs.geofabrik.de/haiti/latest.garmin-gmapsupp.zip

Then put your GPS in a mode so that it shows up as a disk on your
computer, and then copy the gmapsupp.img file to the Garmin folder on
the GPS, and create it if it doesn't exist.

Then the map should be installed.

Usually with commercial maps you'd use MapSource but nobody has made a
mapsource installer for the Haiti maps yet. Would such an installer
help or is this sufficient?