I hoping to get some advice. I am trying to create my own maps for my Garmin Dakota 20. I’ve downloaded the .osm.pbf files for the countries I want. I have split them and then modified the ‘template.args’ file to have a unique family-id. I then make the map using mkgmap and the map is built. During this whole process no errors are displayed.
I then rename the gmapsupp.img file to be gmapsuppBE.img, gmapsuppFR.img etc. and place them on the microSD card in the ‘Garmin’ directory in the root of the microSD card. When I turn on my Dakota 20 on the map for Belgium is not visible and I don’t understand why. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
These are the commands I used for downloading the map data.
curl http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/belgium-latest.osm.pbf --output BE.osm.pbf
curl http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/france-latest.osm.pbf --output FR.osm.pbf
These are the commands I use for splitting the downloaded map data.
java -Xmx1500m -jar ../splitter-r597/splitter.jar --max-nodes=1100000 ./BE.osm.pbf
java -Xmx1500m -jar ../splitter-r597/splitter.jar --max-nodes=1100000 ./FR.osm.pbf
I edit the template.args file to set a unique family id. I’ve chosen 6324 followed by the international dialing code for the respective country 0044, 0033, 0032, 0031 etc.
user@laptop:~/Downloads/FR$ head template.args
#
# This file can be given to mkgmap using the -c option
# Please edit it first to add a description of each map.
#
# You can set the family id for the map
family-id: 63240033
product-id: 1
# Following is a list of map tiles. Add a suitable description
and
user@laptop:~/Downloads/BE$ head template.args
#
# This file can be given to mkgmap using the -c option
# Please edit it first to add a description of each map.
#
# You can set the family id for the map
family-id: 63240032
product-id: 1
# Following is a list of map tiles. Add a suitable description
I then create the maps with the following commands.
mkgmap --route --gmapsupp -c template.args --mapname=63240033 --area-name="France" --description="OSM France" --split-name-index --series-name="OSM France" --housenumbers --country-name="France" --country-abbr="FR" --latin1 --overview-mapname="OSM France" --overview-mapnumber=63240033
and
mkgmap --route --gmapsupp -c template.args --mapname=63240032 --area-name="Belgium" --description="OSM Belgium" --split-name-index --series-name="OSM Belgium" --housenumbers --country-name="Belgium" --country-abbr="BE" --latin1 --overview-mapname="OSM Belgium" --overview-mapnumber=63240032
What I don’t understand is in the list of installed map the Belgian map is not listed but the French one is. Can someone help please?