Moagu - Rasterkarten sowie Orthofotos fuer Garmin FarbHandhelds wie 60Cer, Etrex...

So seh ich es im wesentlichen auch.
Primär halte ich es für wichtig, daß dieser Schritt gesetzt wurde.

- Der Wunsch war schon immer da, Rasterkarten auf Garmins zu verwenden
- Spätestens seit Einsatz der TYP-Files war klar, daß es prinzipiell geht

Wie schon weiter vorn ausgeführt wurde, gibt es keinen "Rechner, der nur Vektoren darstellen kann" (und auch GPSr sind nichts weiter als Rechner).
Gibt nur Software, die eben bestimmte Eigenschaften/Funktionen hat/nicht hat.

Moagu macht für mich einen technisch seriösen Eindruck.
Der Autor hat seine Hausaufgaben gemacht und sich wirklich den Kopf darüber zerbrochen, was alles zur Umsetzung notwendig ist.

Was ich bis jetzt nicht nachgeprüft habe, ist, ob die Karten überhaupt korrekt verortet sind.
Die *.img wehren sich nämlich gegen die Darstellung auf dem PC.
IMG2MS verweigert (würd ich an seiner Stelle auch tun).
GPS Mapedit und TTQV können nicht mit TYP-Files umgehen.

Ob die Performance-Schwächen jemals in den Griff zu bekommen sind, ist halt eine Frage.
Die Rechengeschwindigkeit der Prozessoren in den Garmins sind ein Fixwert.
Über die Firmware bestimmt Garmin ... kann mir nicht vorstellen, daß von der Seite Unterstützung für das Projekt kommt - eher das Gegenteil.

Bleibt offen, ob es gelingen kann, für die umgewandelten Rasterbilder effizientere Routinen zu finden.

Wie immer, so ist auch hier davon auszugehen, daß die Motivation des Autors davon abhängt, wieviel konstruktives Feedback er bekommt und wieviele Lizenzen er verkauft.

Ich bleibe entspannt, aber insgeheim würd ich mich freuen, wenn das etwas Gutes werden sollte.

herzliche Grüße

Euer ron

Zitat von JLacky

Die Geräte die das unterstützen werden von GARMIN nicht ewig produziert. Wenn sich in 1-2 Jahren der COLORADO etabliert hat, verschwinden auch die 60er-Geräte bei GARMIN aus dem Produktkatalog.

Glaube ich nicht, Garmin USA hat heute noch die s/w eTrex Legend und Vista im Angebot (obwohl die vermutlich keiner kaufen wird).
Keine Frage, es wird modernere Geräte geben, die Rasterkarten unterstützen, aber Garmin ist da scheinbar recht konsrvativ, was die alten Geräte angeht.

Könnte mir aber vorstellen, dass so ein Vorstoss diese Entwicklung beschleunigen wird. Ausserdem machen das ja andere Herstellen (DeLorme) ja schon vor.

Version 1.1.0 of Moagu has been released

http://www.mediafire.com/?jx1gmmzmn11

Changes & enhancements:

- Two more data levels, 0.5-mile and 0.8-mile/1.2-mile.
These will probably be the last data levels added; smaller scales don't make sense, given the limited size of the GPS display. You'd be better off printing a paper map for those.

- "Combine points" option added to reduce filesize and increase display speed
Points with the same color are now "combined" together, resulting in performance improvements for most maps. The degree of improvement will depend on the type of map, and how colors are arranged on them; the more areas with adjacent points that have the same color, the better the improvement will be. For USGS topo maps, the improvement in draw speed is fairly small, only about 10%, but I hope to improve this in the future. However, even this small improvement has dramatically reduced map display lag times for topo maps at mountain biking speeds. Black-and-white aerial imagery display times are reduced by as much as a third, because of their limited color palette. Color images that have large areas with the same color should see an improvement as well. File sizes are also smaller, by as much as about one-third. You also have the option to turn this feature off if it creates artifacts in your images.

- Load GeoTiff option added to simplify import process for GeoTiffs
Have you gotten annoyed by the need to first read in a GeoTiff file to see the metadata, then re-project it and extract the worldfile, then load each in separately? Well, now the program lets you load in a GeoTiff, does the re-projection automatically, then loads the re-projected image and worldfile directly into the program. This works perfectly for USGS Seamless Server imagery; for other data sources, you should double-check the final results to make sure the map is correct. The re-projection utility is still there if you need it.

- Combined Load Map/Worldfile
If you have an image with a worldfile, you only have to click one button; Moagu will start up the file selection windows for both the image and the worldfile automatically.

- Only one TYP file is created and loaded for every data level.
Early experiments convinced me that every map tile required its own corresponding TYP file. Stan Kozicki, the author of cgpsmapper, told me that wasn't necessary, and I've found that to be the case. So now, only one TYP file is created for every data level, which can reduce the total file size by as much as 5-10%.

- SendMap Pro replaces the free version of SendMap
Stan was also nice enough to offer a free version of SendMap Pro for distribution with Moagu. This is normally a $30 value, so you've essentially saved more than the cost of Moagu with this :). Check the help file for some info on what SendMap Pro can do. Thanks to this new capability, the mapset Map Name is now embedded in every file created by Moagu using SendMap, i.e. the .img and .exe files generated at the end of the process.

- Helpfile sections on adding Moagu maps to MapSource, working with data levels
Check the "Advanced Moaguology" section of the help file for a step-by-step description of how to add Moagu maps to MapSource, and how to view them there. This will simplify the job of uploading both Moagu and standard vector maps to your Garmin. If you upload maps to a card in a card reader (see the help file for info on this), you can dramatically reduce the amount of time required to upload large Moagu mapsets to your Garmin. There's also a section with more information on how data levels work with Garmin GPS units, and how to take advantage of that.

- Shell commands for creating directories, using SendMap improved
If Moagu has been working for you, you won't notice this, but for those who have had problems, this should fix the remaining issues

- Only creates directories for levels that will be used
Moagu used to create directories for every data level, regardless of whether data was being generated for that level or not. Now, with the increased number of available data levels, I've changed that so that only the needed directories will be created.

- Added scale to data level indications
I had a table of map scale (for a 60Cx or 76Cx unit) for every data level in the help file, but these are now listed on the main program screen.

- Cautionary message that uploading map will delete data currently in the Garmin.
Some people didn't realize that uploading a new mapset to a Garmin erases the previous one; the pop-up message now makes that clear before you upload a mapset to your Garmin using Moagu.

Zitat von popej

Viel mehr brauchbare Ergebnisse kann Vektorisierung geben. Hier ist ein Beispiel für eine solche Karte mit kostenlose Tool bmap2mp gemacht:
http://www.google.com/translat…war.org.ru%2F&sl=ru&tl=de

Das Programm habe ich mir heruntergeladen und dazu eine Beispielkarte als Bitmap mit Ozi Kalibrierung erstellt. Aber wie erzeuge ich nun die mp Karte??

Wie man auch über Moagu denkt, eines muß man dem Autor lassen:
Er ist offen und ehrlich, stellt sein Prog nicht als besser hin, als es ist, und er ist wirklich um die Sache selbst bemüht.
Die aktuelle Version bietet ein GUI für bmap2mp.

Hab gerade erst den Newsletter bekommen, ausprobiert hab ich noch nix. Kann ich auch erst nächste Woche, wenn ich vom Urlaub zurückkomme.

Hier die Release Notes:

Two changes in Moagu, one minor, the other major:

Minor change: There's now a warning that comes up when the image you try to load is larger than 100 million pixels in size (> 10,000 x 10,000); Moagu may choke on images larger than this. The USGS appears to have recently increased the maximum image size beyond this point, and several people have had problems. The solution is to either select a smaller area, or at the bottom of the data type selection form choose a smaller maximum filesize, which in turn will force the USGS Seamless Server to tile the selected area into smaller chunks.

Major change: Moagu converts raster bitmaps into what are effectively bitmaps on the Garmin unit. There's an alternate approach which involved converting the raster image into vector polygons, then coding the polygons into a Garmin map. This approach has advantages (smaller filesize, faster display), and disadvantages (fewer colors (62 vs. 254), loss of detail, limited maximum image size (no tiling)). The commercial program MapWel ($45/$90; http://mapwel.biz) has a raster to vector converter, but I've recently been made aware of a freeware utility called BMap2MP that does the same thing. In its current configuration, it's not very user-friendly: command-line only, you have to manually edit the parameters in a text file, and it only takes map images calibrated using OziExplorer ($90; http://oziexplorer.com). I've created a more user-friendly GUI for this utility which simplifies the job enormously, lets you use GeoTiffs or TIFFs with worldfiles directly, and improves the resul
ts for USGS topo maps. There's a new extensive section in the help file that compares results between a Moagu map and a BmaP2MP file, explains its benefits and limitations, and describes step-by-step how to use the utility. Support for this utility extends only to the GUI; you're on your own in terms of figuring out how to get the best results from such a map. You can access the utility from the main Utilities menu.

You can download the updater here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?a1kzeddnczj

Note: You'll have to download the BmaP2MP utility separately, and copy the executable into a subdirectory in the Moagu program directory; see the help file for the download link and instructions. BmaP2MP is not my program, so it's not appropriate for me to include it in the distribution.

Herzliche Grüße

Euer ron

Moagu 1.2.2 update verfügbar

Version 1.3.2 verfügbar

Tutorial unter: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tu…ter-topo-maps-with-moagu/

Hat wer die neue Version von Mapwel im Einsatz? Soll nun einiges schneller gehen am GPS --> http://www.mapwel.eu/index_ger.htm
In der nächsten Version soll ja 30000 Pixel Bildgrösse gehen.

Mapwel soll ja im Vergleich zu Moagu auch am Oregon gehen.