[mkgmap-dev] Convert from gmapsupp to mapsource map or the other way around?

Tue Jan 10 16:33:22 GMT 2012

On Tue, Jan 10, Manuel Reimer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to use the latest trunk version to create a gmapsupp.img file with 
> address search.
> 
> If I want to have both, a "garmin map" for mapsource/qlandkarte and a image file 
> for the GPS device, is it possible to do this in two steps? Create one of the 
> two first and then convert to the second format?

Not convert, but you can create the second one from the *.img files
from the first call:

mkgmap $OPTIONS --gmapsupp $TYPFILE
mkgmap $OPTIONS --tdbfile [0-9]*.img $TYPFILE

The second call will not regenerate all tiles, only built
the tdb and index files for mapsource/qlandkarte.

  Thorsten

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