Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Greencaps, what makes you so negative about mkgmap? I don't understand why there will be a queue just for downloading a 1,5mb programm?
The setup.exe can be a general one. It has to be compiled once but thats it. In the setup.exe there will be the latest mkgmap, a few or just one general typ file, and a bunch of instructions what to do with the downloaded img that the user himself will download from Lambertus site. With the selected tiles they are downloading, comes a small setup.exe file that will install those tiles into mapsource and / or make a gmapsupp.img. Ok, you can make this installer as sophisticated as you want, maybe let this installer downloads the tiles, but that seems to me far more complicated.
Sorry, dont have any knowledge about Linux.

Mkgmap is not overkill when it comes to making an index file for mapsource. I think it should be used because other programms like mapsettoolkit will fail to make a good index from the tiles.
And I think its better to include mkgmap because there are several versions of this and the tiles that Lambertus has generated must be in correspondence with the right mkgmap version.

If someone wants to order a map for free we can ask some effort for this service (=installing java). Better this than waiting for days for your free lunch.

When a user comes back later to add more maps, it is very likely that the tiles are not the same anymore. Thats a big issue for which I haven't found yet a good solution, other
than uninstalling all the previously installed maps. :-(