Olaf Moroccan Maps -> Garmin Mobile XT

[beepster]

Disclaimers first... 1) I hope I'm posting in the right section, not sure which is best, and 2) I'm new to gps mapping and have only used Mapsource for a day. I don't actually have a gps other than the one in my phone.

Anyways, the issue is I'm heading to Morocco and would like to use the Olaf maps on my phone gps (Nokia N95 8gb) which has Garmin Mobile 5.0.20 installed (I will have paper maps too btw).

Trying to open the maps in Mapsource and transferring doesn't work because the phone isn't an actual Garmin gps and thus doesn't appear to be detected.

Neither will it work with Img2Gps - I can use the 'create file' option and copy over the resulting .img file, but it lacks all the town and road labels, although the actual roads and tracks do display.

I've also tried GpsMapedit to export to an .img file. However, when I try this I have to change the Levels/Zoom and this loses detail. If I continue anyway, export to .img and copy over to the phone, I get the same problem as with Img2Gps (losing the town and road names).

Has anyone ever tried anything like this or would you have any suggestions as to how to convert the Olaf tracks to a .img without losing the labels ?

Thanks in advance

btw - I used to be here years ago but my account seems to have disappeared since so I had to reregister.

 

[Bumpkin]

Try putting the card from the phone into a card reader, Mapsource should recognise that and allow you to send the maps there. Alternatively write the maps to a USB pen drive, again Mapsource should list that, and then copy to the phone.

 

[beepster]

A bumpkin, sir, you are not! Many thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't realised I could do that so I transferred to a pendrive and then hopped the files over to the phone via usb (as it doesn't have a card). The great thing is Mapsource generates the file about 100 times faster than Img2Gps.

Unfortunately though, the labels are still failing to display properly. I get a single letter on the odd town. I've tried putting over several other maps via this method and they appear to work fine so all I can assume now is there is some issue with the Olaf maps ??

 

[Bumpkin]

Glad you got that far. Sorry, don't have experience with the Olaf maps.

There is a hack that allows you to write the mapping to the C drive which is even quicker, have a look here if that interests you.

Have you tried looking at the map display settings, not sure Mobile XT has these, on my Quest you can make all sorts of adjustments as to how place names etc are displayed. Later units such as my 2720 seem to lack these though, part of the dumbing down process I suppose.

 

[beepster]

Cheers, I'll have a look into that. Yep, it is possible to change the size of labels for towns, small towns, cities, etc, with the mobile version.

I'm going to do up a full report for Olaf and fire it on. When converting the separated road or topo maps with Img2Gps (as opposed to the combined files which are installed with the .exe) there had been a problem reported with zoom levels and I'm suspecting this is where the issue may be. If I bring these files into Mapsource it also fails to export with an error which might be caused by the same thing. I've downloaded different versions from several sources so it's not a corruption problem with one particular file.

 

[beepster]

Ok, this appears to be a problem with MobileXT on the s60 platform. It hasn't been internationalised fully to support codepages other than 1252 Latin (1 byte) and the Olaf maps are 7-bit ascii, thus the characters in the labels are not appearing. Gah, bad form Garmin!