Thread: Creating Garmin IMG Maps

Hi! I'm trying to create Garmin dedicated map of colored hiking trails with each trail would be displayed with the relevant color and used as layer on routable Garmin topoactive map. Extracted necessary info from OSM site, created map in QGIS, exported it in geojson format, converted to OSM format and then stuck with mkgmap. I can see that color info is preserved in OSM file, but when I simply convert it with mkgmap, all color info is lost. I tried to create dedicated style file and typ file with lines for each color and each type of the road coded trough subtype, but TYPviewer does not let me to record subtypes for roads as well as mkgmap does not recognize them. Any advise on how to move further would be appreciated

Originally Posted by Felichita

Any advise on how to move further would be appreciated

The types you use to display roads are not marine and therefore, as I wrote earlier, cannot have subtypes.

You can find a description of almost all types in the MPCtypes.txt file that comes with the program.

So you should use custom line types - any of the 1024.

For example:

Code:

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The only problem is that custom types are not routable.

If you need both routing and color indication, you will have to use 2 lines at once to indicate each road: regular (for routing) and custom (for coloring). Do not forget to assign a higher display priority to the custom line in the TYP file ([_drawOrder] section).