[mkgmap-dev] TYP file and custom style

Tue Jul 20 11:22:48 BST 2010

Frédéric Bonifas (fredericbonifas at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use a custom TYP file with mkgmap. To learn, I am for
> now just trying to display toilets. So I did :
> * a TYP file, available here :
> http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi?_h=2678aeac15f92afa813cefcc5bb2b1d10f07b23c
> There is just a definition for toilets, and I use the type 0x4e00
> * a style file, availbale here :
> http://fredericbonifas.free.fr/watsan.zip I just define a rule for
> amenity=toilets using the type 0x4e00
> * Then I run mkgmap with :
> java -jar mkgmap.jar --family-id=4242 --style-file=resources/styles
> --style=watsan --gmapsupp bilbao.osm watsan.TYP
>
> I got no error generating the map, and the produced gmapsupp file is :
> But nothing appears on my GPS (Vista CX)
>
> Am I doing something wrong ?
>
Use --style-file=resources/styles/watsan

(--style=X is just for internal styles, not custom styles).

I would also suggest you set the product ID of the TYP file to 1,  
though that may not be anything to do with it.

-- 
Charlie