Working with the maps and uploading them to your Garmin GPS: exe, and overwrite the old data - before Qlandkarte opens, it will ask you again to select the overview map again - so usually (see instructions above) you will select mapsetc.img and click on open to continue. Medium contrast - therefore bad for GPS use. It is the easiest to understand layout and optimized for big screens (800圆00 or bigger). *trad - Mapsource/Basecamp/Qlandkarte_GT/Desktop - General big screen/resolution layout. *hike - Similar to easy but fully optimized for hiking. lines for (mtb:scale(:uphill)/cycleway=*/sac_scale)
*easy - Simple Layout with (nearly) no additional info over traditional topo maps. *wide - high contrast layout, like classic but with white forest and wider streets/lines - optimized for Oregon/Colorado dull displays
*thin - thinner tracks and pathes - optimized for Gpsmap60/76 or Dakota series *clas - Classic - optimized for Vista/Legend/edge_705 series The Openmtbmap maps have 5 Layouts - choose according to your needs: After we have chosed tradlv - the map now looks like this:
If you select German or English - then some POI or lines won't show labels.Įasy/Layout: This is the most interesting dropdown menu - here you can quickly change the layout - for working with Qlandkarte GT - I recommend trad? (? stading for the country prefix).ħ. Unspecified/Language: Please leave this on Unspecified - I have not translated all the relevant files. Night: Openmtbmaps have no separate night layout - hence this won't change anything. If however too much details obstruct your view, or make loading the map slow, you can set it to "-" When you look in the lower right edge of the Qlandkarte GT window - you find some dropdown menus.ĭetail: If you select a + value, more information is shown even while zoomed out further. Choosing the map layout and map detail for a given zoom level: If you load more maps, they will be added there. You can see the map added to your list of vector maps in the left window. Therefore I click on mapsetc.img and click on open.Ĥ. You need to choose the same mapset? as chosen before. Now we have to select the according overview map. Here I select mapsetc.tdb and click on open to continue.ģ. The normal way is to load the map - using the mapsetc.tdb file - however you could also load the map without contourlines (mapsetx) and load the contourlines as a separate map (mapsetz). Mapsetz - Theese mapset files are for you if you want to have a separate contourlines only map. Mapsetx - Theese are the mapset files which do not integrate the contourlines into the map Mapsetc - Theese are the mapset files which integrate the contourlines into the map We have to select the main map file - This is always the *.tdb file. We click on Load Map (in German Karte Öffnen):Ģ. 7*.img - theese are the contourlines and some more files like *.TYP - which are defining the layout of the maps, or mapset* files, which are like the index for the maps.įirst of all, in case of questions - here is a good help: QLandkarte_GT Helpġ.
Here is a screenshot of what needs to be in a single folder (this plus 6*.img - the example is from the Latvia Map) - you can see 6*.img - theese are the map files. Make sure all 6*.img and 7*.img as well as *.tdb and mdr.img and *.typ files, are in the same folder - and not in subfolders. For some maps, you need to unpack the contourlines too. openmtbmap_austria for the the austrian openmtbmap and then unpack itħz x -y -openmtbmap_austria mtbaustria.exeĪlternatively if you prefer not to use commandline, rename mtbaustria.exe to mtbaustria.7z, and then right click it in your file manager to unpack it!ĥ. Put the maps into a directory of your choice - e.g.
Download the Openmtbmap or Velomap of your choice from here: /download/odbl/ respectively 4. apt-get install 7z or aptitude install 7zģ.
exe Windows files are simple lzma files (though I plan to change that to lzma2 sometimes soon). If not yet installed, make sure you can unpack lzma2 files. Install and get Qlandkarte GT from - Click on Download then select your OSĢ.
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