NAME¶
mkgmap - Generate Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap data
SYNOPSIS¶
mkgmap [
options]
files.osm ...
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
mkgmap command.
mkgmap is a program that converts OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into a map
that can be loaded onto a Garmin GPS device. The mapping between OSM features
and the features in the map can be completely customized by writing what we
term a "style".
OPTIONS¶
- --help <filename>
- Use this option to get alist of the built in help topics. In particular
calling --help=options will list all the available options and is always
up to date.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶
This project is almost entirely based on the file format specification document
written by John Mechalas at the SourceForge project at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/garmin-img.
SEE ALSO¶
josm(1),
qlandkarte(1).
AUTHOR¶
mkgmap was originally written by Steve Ratcliffe <sr@parabola.me.uk> and
has been improved by many other people since.
This manual page was written by Andreas Putzo <andreas@putzo.net>, for the
Debian project (but may be used by others).