Thread: Garmin GPS full search - Find place in MapSource - how to create

I was investigating "how to create an index file to enable searching in Mapsource" and came to this thread.

Although your statements are true. It looks like there is a way to build / create an index file for Mapsource. The Open Street Map project use the mkgmap tool to make Garmin map for Mapsource from their OSM Project. Until very recently, mkgmap could not build the index for the gmappsup.img used on the device, only Mapsource did it. That was the reason they build mapset for Mapsource. This tool has an option to build an index file for Mapsource.

Making maps from OpenStreetMap for Garmin devices
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And specifically for
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# create an index file to enable searching in Mapsource"

Look for this text within a command line example:
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However, since January 28th 2012, mkgmap can build an address index for GPS devices.
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I have not yet use this tool. And I don't know if it will find the necessary informations within a splitted gmappsup.img to build the index file for Mapsource. I will give it a try.

It is worth noting that they discovered a "bug" in the address index for GPS devices mkgmap build : When merging different family ID, routing will not work on the device. This is currently a bug as well with at least my Garmin device and / or Mapsource. When I use 2 maps e.g. gmapprom.img & gmappsup.img [one of them or both of them build with more than one FID] the routing does not work on my device. They are currently working on this.