[mkgmap-dev] Garmin "Feature" or bug?

Fri Jan 30 17:06:00 GMT 2009

Presumably thanks to the work of Mark Burton (see [mkgmap-dev] Find by
name - experimental patch 28/01/09) then this is now working. I used
r856 and can now search with or without the basemap

Thanks

Paul

Paul wrote:
> Yes the gmapbmap.img is the base map.
> 
> Without the base map file I can't manually enter names at all. As soon
> as I try to enter the first letter the unit crashes and turns itself off
> (it searches each time you enter a letter so you don't have to type the
> full place name)
> 
> I have noticed that with the base map if I start entering letters then
> it will show me places starting with those letters in other countries
> (quite possibly all europe) rather than just the UK.
> 
> I updated to r849 today and this still persists but I don't know whether
> it's designed to only search the base map or not.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> Johann Gail wrote:
>> I've never heard of a gmapbmap.img. My assumptions, but they may be
>> totally wrong:
>>
>> From the name i would think, this is the basemap. I think, in the
>> generated gmapsupp.img is some information for places missing, so the
>> garmin unit tries to read this information from the basemap. If this
>> informations are also missing then the unit will crash.
>>
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