[mkgmap-dev] Empty map?

Fri Sep 9 06:23:52 BST 2011

Aloha all-

I am relatively new to working with mkgmap, so I apologize if I'm doing
something really stupid. I am trying to make a routable map of Illinois,
in the USA. I was able to do so for Wisconsin without any problem, but
with the Illinois osm.bz2 file I downloaded both from cloudmade.com and
geofrabrik.de, I get a completely empty map on my Garmin 62st.

Here are the parameters I'm using:

java -Xmx4000m -jar ~/splitter-r179/splitter.jar illinois.osm.bz2

Then I build the map with:

java -jar -Xmx4000M ~/mkgmap-r2012/mkgmap.jar --max-jobs
--adjust-turn-headings --ignore-maxspeeds --ignore-turn-restrictions
--remove-short-arcs=4 --mapname="Test Illinois" --description="Test
Illinois" --net --route --transparent --gmapsupp -c template.args

This worked fine for the wisconsin.osm.bz2 file I have, but not Illinois.
I downloaded an Illinois map from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/, and it
worked perfectly. I searched around for the parameters he's passing to
mkgmap, and I built this command from it:

java -Xmx2048M -ea -jar ~/mkgmap-r2012/mkgmap.jar --code-page=1252
--name-tag-list=name:en,int_name,name --remove-short-arcs
--add-pois-to-areas --make-opposite-cycleways --description='Zesty Ill NL
Test' --net --route --series-name='OSM World Routable' --gmapsupp -c
template.args

But again no joy. Is it possible the splitter parameters are wrong for
what I'm trying to do?

Thanks for any info,

Tacho