Comments on: How to create custom Garmin contour maps

By: Kyle Brown

Kyle Brown — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:14:10 +0000

Great program, really useful. There does appear to be a problem with some Aster tiles

I have had problems with generating the maps using Tif2mp for some Aster tiles. Of the tiles I have been using, Tif2mp only seems to happen in the ones which have no data values (-9999). Examples of this are N60E007 and N60E006. I tried replacing the -9999 values with 0 and Tif2mp worked.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:54:08 +0000

Version 1.4 has support for ASTER data as requested.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:50:48 +0000

For support on cGPSmapper you could try contacting the author. I didn’t have any problems so far.

I will update Tif2mp for ASTER GDEM data; have a few days patience.

By: Adrian Jansen

Adrian Jansen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:32:20 +0000

Hi, great work !
But while I can get the FWtools to produce a set of shapefiles, I cannot seem to get cGPSMapper to work, ir fails complaining of SENDG.DDL missing, corrupt or wrong version.
The shapefiles work though, since I can import them into MAPWEN and view them ok.

Is there any chance you can extend this really useful program to also use the hi-res ASTER data available from http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/search.jsp ?
I tried loading one of these tiles, but they are 3501 * 3501 pixels, not 6001 * 6001.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:49:40 +0000

I understand that you succeeded making the map, but that you didn’t succeeded to register the map into MapSource. Maybe you can take a look at the documentation of MapSetToolKit to find out your problem.

By: Adam Baker

Adam Baker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:34:15 +0000

When I tried this, when I go to the Garmin Setup -> Map Setup menu, and then to the “Info” screen to select the new map, it doesn’t list any maps, and only seems to hang. My map is only 364 kb, so I doubt I’m taxing the unit. Any ideas? Thanks.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:31:31 +0000

I think you should check if FWTools is installed correctly. Normally the tools are installed in the folder C:\Program Files\FWTools. This folder should be selected as GDAL Folder (in the next version I will rename this for clarity). Let me know if this solves your problem.

By: nick willink

nick willink — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:49:36 +0000

Hi, I’m following your instructions regarding tiff2m and am getting the following error below Current tile:

Cannot find the file specified.
I’ve downloaded a tif map:srtm_36_02.tif
I wonder which file?

am using vista

Regards

Nick Willink