Garmin Mapsource Product Creator v.8.2 + v.8.3

**pop222** · 13th February 2013, 10:51 PM

Mapsource Product Creator v.8.3 added in starting post

**Ivan_007** · 25th February 2013, 01:01 PM

Could someone point me to an tutorial or proven to work ideas on adding raster images to garmin map (img) from scanned prints? Or from Ozi maps? Last option even more intresting

**Cnfhbr** · 25th February 2013, 05:49 PM

@Ivan_007

For adding raster to IMG file via MPC the source image must be converted to a calibrated GeoTIFF format ...

**Ivan_007** · 26th February 2013, 04:24 PM

Thanks. Idea I have is to use OpenSea or OpenStreet map and add calibrated maps from Ozi. So far I only found those hints (in russian)

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on - GPS-Forum so, more detailed steps, suggestions, links are welcome.

Edut:

With help of Global Mapper created geotiff files from OZI source. Now I have OpenStreet map files and image files. Since I have raster maps of different scale, it would be great (if possible at all) to use different images on different scale on navigator. But starting from simple things, what is the best/easiest way to merge those two sources in to final Garmin img file? Any advice?

**Akaky** · 8th April 2013, 04:58 AM

Does anybody know what HGT_DP to set for GENERIC_MANMADE to make building contours displayed in navigation mode on Nuvi 13xx? I tried 0, 1 and no values - no luck. But Navicom somehow managed to do it in the FID 1734 of Roads of Russia. Or is it trickier than it seems?

Any help appreciated!

**Cnfhbr** · 8th April 2013, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Akaky

Does anybody know what HGT_DP to set for GENERIC_MANMADE to make building contours displayed in navigation mode on Nuvi 13xx?

I don't have such devices, but I think that any value of the HGT_DP attribute prevents display of the building contours in these devices.
Just try to activate the "Disable 3D Models" checkbox in the Product Configuration/Detailed ...

**Akaky** · 13th April 2013, 06:02 PM

Well, it did turn out to be trickier than expected. With either HGT_DP = 0 or "Disable 3D Models" option ticked the GENERIC_MANMADE polygons are not displayed at all in both navigation and explore modes on Nuvi 1300. With HGT_DP being any value =/> 1 contours are displayed in explore mode only. Decimal values between 0 and 1 are considered to be 0. The same is true for negative values. The GENERIC_MANMADE areas of different heights show up at different zoom levels in explore mode which suggests the model is aware of heights in a sense. Of all FID's of "Roads of Russia" 5.29 map only 1280 turned out to have extruded heights and on this map only footprints of 3D models are displayed in navigation mode. Checking all available FID's of the abovementioned map in the MPC_viewer confirmed the GENERIC_MANMADE has 0 elevation (that is, no elevation info at all, to be precise) in all builds except 1280 but for some reason having exactly the same parameters for object properties in a custom map does not make GENERIC_MANMADE areas be displayed the same way as in official maps. How strange...