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[mkgmap-dev] MDR success and a couple of questions

From Steve Ratcliffe steve at parabola.me.uk on Tue Sep 22 21:56:18 BST 2009

On 22/09/09 21:35, Bernhard Heibler wrote:
> thats really good news ! I tried to embed your dummy mdr file into my
> map unfortunately my Nuvi was not impressed. It is still asking for a
> state but at least it didn't crash.

Ah yes, I should have been clear, it will only work in mapsource as
far as I know.  Also I expect that the section 1 subsection data is
used by ms to create the on-device version, so I doubt that will work
either (though I've not tried, so feel free to check).

> Unfortunately I was not able to spend much time looking into MDR during
> the last months. So I have to dig into this again. According to my
> documents the nuvi at least requires the following MDR Records:
>
>      1,   5,   11,    24 (country List ?),  25 (City Ref List), 29
> (Country List ?)

Did you also reduce the header length? The sections 24,25 and 29
may only be required in files with the larger header.

..Steve



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