[mkgmap-dev] creating a mapsource installer

Sat Feb 14 20:12:53 GMT 2009

Hi

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:59:23AM +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> A bit of background,  I make Garmin maps for the Philippines and
> distribute them free as a way to popularize OSM and hopefully recruit
> more Filipino mappers.
> The usual request for potential users is a mapsource installer many of
> them wouldn't bother tinkering with anything other than double-click
> exe and upload the map from mapsource.
> Personally, I don't use mapsource (OSM have better tools ;))

You might want to ask Lambertus who runs the OSM forum.
Probably best to write to the Garmin map specific forum
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=26

He creates installers for the map sets, see: http://garmin.na1400.info/ The
installer links are Windows executables that install with a double click.
I don't know if his method uses all open-source tools though.

To create your own installer you could consider using WiX [http://wix.sourceforge.net/]
It would be good if we could make mkgmap create the needed XML file that
could then be fed into WiX. 

..Steve