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

[Lambertus]

http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php doesn't have the infrastructure 
to do 5 minute updates like Geofabrik has been doing.

If Geofabrik would add the --nsis parameter to Mkgmap commandline in the 
step where they generate the gmapsupp.img then the installer would be 
generated as well. This works on Windows and Linux and does not need any 
additional dependencies (well, maybe NSIS is required. Not really sure 
about that). A --family-id parameter must also be provided.

I have the following parameters on the Mkgmap commandline in the final 
(map combining) step:
--index
--overview-mapname=63240000
--series-name='OSM World Routable'
--latin1
--description='OSM World Routable'
--product-id=3
--family-id=2000
--tdbfile
--nsis
--gmapsupp *324*.img

Hope this helps.

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 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?
>