[mkgmap-dev] How to change a style file

Sun Mar 7 07:22:15 GMT 2010

07.03.2010 02.58.19, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:
> I think perhaps we could ask at osm to get a small area (e.g. in the  
> atlantic or pacific ocean or something like that), that is a  
> "playground" to test tags and icons.In the meantime I eg tagged some  
> very important shops in a Shopping Centre nearby. It is all correct,  
> but I used it to test my icons. ;-)

There is no need to upload bogus data to the server. You can create a  
*.osm file yourself in JOSM. Or you can download a nearby area and  
create all sorts of shops and restaurants in your neighbourhood. I have  
done that a couple of times. Also to test mkgmap:unpaved, I downloaded  
some area around my home and did some virtual road paving and unpaving.

There is also the test-map (sp?) feature of mkgmap. It generates all  
POIs in an area centered around BASE_LAT and BASE_LONG (default  
somewhere close to London, almost at 0N 0E). I filled in the "Edge 705"  
column at  
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types and  
corrected part of garmin_feature_list.csv based on my observations.

	Marko