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

[Margie Roswell]

Andrew put up these helpful instructions.
http://haiti.crisiscommons.org/gps/

Are there any changes recommended to that?

I'm trying to put together a video on how to do this... won't be
complete until at least tomorrow.

Margie

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
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