[mkgmap-dev] Setting map name when seen in eTrex Vista

Fri Nov 20 12:47:18 GMT 2009

That fixed it, also needed to re-add the map set with mapsettoolkit to
pickup the familiy id.
Thanks

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Kleineisel <ralf at kleineisel.de> wrote:
> On Friday 20 November 2009 02:17:41 Peter & Suzie wrote:
>
>> I have created 2 sets of maps and when I load them into the GPS they
>> both have the name in the menu to hide show a map set, see menu.bmp
>> When I go to individual maps I can see the correct names, see bike &
>>  car.bmp I have tried every option on mkgmap but this never changes, any
>>  one know where the name is set?
>
> The name in the Menu.bmp is the family-name. It is valid for all tiles of that
> family-id. The name in the bike.bmp is the tile name, in mkgmap config file
> you set it with the "description" option.
>
> If you want to have one gmapsupp.img which contains a bike map and a car map
> and both have more than one tile you need two different family-ids and family-
> names. If you use TYP files you need one for each family.
>
> Your template.args file might look like this:
>
> product-id=1
> family-id=1234
> family-name=car_map
>
> mapname=10000001
> description=maptile_1
> input-file=10000001.osm.gz
>
> mapname=10000002
> description=maptile_2
> input-file=10000002.osm.gz
>
> [...]
>
> product-id=1
> family-id=5678
> family-name=bike_map
>
> mapname=20000001
> description=maptile_3
> input-file=20000001.osm.gz
>
> mapname=20000002
> description=maptile_4
> input-file=20000002.osm.gz
>
> [...]
>
> mapset-name: car_and_bike_map
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