[mkgmap-dev] Translation system proposal

Thu Apr 11 08:04:15 BST 2013

Marko Mäkelä wrote
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:04:20PM -0700, franco_bez wrote:
>>I was wondering if it weren't possible to use the built-in translations 
>>of the Garmin Device itself.
>>I mean the translations in the *.gtt Files from the GARMIN/Text 
>>directory on the Garmin device.
>>Exit would be TXT_Exit_STR_M
> 
> Is the GARMIN/Text a feature of newer devices? I do not remember seeing 
> anything like that on my Edge 705.

I have this on the Oregon 550 and the Nüvi 40, I don't know about older
devices.
This is a set of xml Files where the Firmware gets the translations when you
change the language setting.

>>Has anyone ever tried whether or not we can use GARMIN Text Constants  
>>in the map ?
> 
> As far as I understand, the 'default name' of unnamed things can be 
> defined in the TYP file, for every supported language code. In NT maps 
> (which mkgmap cannot generate) you could represent object names in 
> multiple languages (say, street names in French or Dutch in Belgium, 
> selectable on the device).

I noticed that when there is no name at all in the map, then the firmware
uses a (translated) default, probably based on the typ-id of the Object.

Ciao,
 Franco

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