jonasolof
11-17-2003, 01:39 PM
Trying to support Hardydougs effort to add a road to his home and include it in routing I mailed the following question to the people doing GPSmapper sw that let's you build your own (nonroutable) maps.
Hi,
Snay adviced me that there is a version of
GPSmapper that would allow for adding routing
attributes for roads made.
My aim is the following: Change some grave errors
in the mapping in the City Select detail map
around Waterloo, Belgium. There are roads that
should be marked as blocked to cars and roads that
are interrupted on the map but not in reality.
These errors have been in for a long time and the
local NAvtech office has done nothing. Sometimes
the errors show some kind of official reality or
future planning that is nonsense today and for the
foreseable future.
The use of these altered maps would be purely
personal. I want my wife and our employed home
help to be able to use my Garmin iQue navigator.
But they don't care to do it with the very obvious
errors that are here. GPS is a hobby to me so
there is no commercial interest. Also, such
information could be included in software info.
I do not need to put in new info such as POI,
geography features and the like. But there are
roads and paths that I would like to add.
I will be glad to provide more info that would
enable you to determine a version and a price for
this product.
Regards
Jonas Lonnroth
Brussels
Answer:
First of all you must know that exporting routing
info is not possible from existing IMG files - that
mean - it is not possible to fix any existing maps.
The only way it can be done is to prepare all maps
from the beginning - and that (unfortunately) mean - add a lot of VERY
specyfic informations (which are - to tell the true - not possible to enter
without professional GIS tool like Mapinfo or ArcView)
Well - it is possible to provide such info in TXT format (Polish format) -
but beleive me - you can't do that manually.
Last, but not least - cgpsmapper with routing functionality is very
expensive - lot of people work on that (not only me) - it was more than 800
man/days - and the price is adequate....
I am very sorry.
Best Regards
Stan
Hi,
Snay adviced me that there is a version of
GPSmapper that would allow for adding routing
attributes for roads made.
My aim is the following: Change some grave errors
in the mapping in the City Select detail map
around Waterloo, Belgium. There are roads that
should be marked as blocked to cars and roads that
are interrupted on the map but not in reality.
These errors have been in for a long time and the
local NAvtech office has done nothing. Sometimes
the errors show some kind of official reality or
future planning that is nonsense today and for the
foreseable future.
The use of these altered maps would be purely
personal. I want my wife and our employed home
help to be able to use my Garmin iQue navigator.
But they don't care to do it with the very obvious
errors that are here. GPS is a hobby to me so
there is no commercial interest. Also, such
information could be included in software info.
I do not need to put in new info such as POI,
geography features and the like. But there are
roads and paths that I would like to add.
I will be glad to provide more info that would
enable you to determine a version and a price for
this product.
Regards
Jonas Lonnroth
Brussels
Answer:
First of all you must know that exporting routing
info is not possible from existing IMG files - that
mean - it is not possible to fix any existing maps.
The only way it can be done is to prepare all maps
from the beginning - and that (unfortunately) mean - add a lot of VERY
specyfic informations (which are - to tell the true - not possible to enter
without professional GIS tool like Mapinfo or ArcView)
Well - it is possible to provide such info in TXT format (Polish format) -
but beleive me - you can't do that manually.
Last, but not least - cgpsmapper with routing functionality is very
expensive - lot of people work on that (not only me) - it was more than 800
man/days - and the price is adequate....
I am very sorry.
Best Regards
Stan