[mkgmap-dev] Feature Request: mkgmap able to create gmap archive (BaseCamp)

Sun Dec 4 16:37:38 GMT 2016

I don't use -v, so yes, that may be the case.
I have changed gmapi-builder permissions, you should be able to download 
it now

El 04/12/16 a las 16:48, Patrik Brunner escribió:
> Just to let everyone know:
> I get this 'Unknown Block' Output only when I run gmapi-builder.py 
> with the option -v for verbose. Without -v it's not shown.
>
> Would it be possible that others just haven't seen it as they didn't 
> use the verbose option ?
>
> Cheers
> Patrik
>
> On 04.12.2016 16:34, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk> writes:
>>
>>>> I'm wondering if it would be possible that mkgmap is able to
>>>> create/convert maps also in the gmap (gmapi) format used for 
>>>> BaseCamp on
>>>> Windows and Macintosh.
>>> Yes, this seems a reasonable thing to do.
>> I would like to see this too.  I run mkgmap on a mac, and want to have
>> both a big .img to load directly and also gmapi format to load into
>> basecamp.
>>
>>> In the mkgmap code base there is a python program called
>>> gmapi-builder.py in the scripts directory.
>>>
>>> See also https://bitbucket.org/berteun/gmapibuilder/overview
>>> and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gmapibuilder.
>>>
>>> This is a converter, but should work on all platforms with python
>>> installed, or could be made to do so...
>>> The first step is to verify that it works; then it should
>>> be easy enough to implement within mkgmap itself.
>> For what it's worth, I have been using gmapibuilder with mkgmap for a
>> very long time.  The mod time on my gmapibuilder.py file is December
>> 2009.  I have had essentially zero trouble. 