OpenMapChest- Adding Maps to Toughbook Mapping Software
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:46 am
I've started a search for adding maps to the Toughbook using this link for Garmin:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding- ... -Oregon-4/
Canada: http://www.openmapchest.org/maps/canada
USA: http://www.openmapchest.org/maps/united-states
Ignore the ads on the web pages, and look at the bottom for bit torrent downloads
Looks like you can also register and use a direct download
I'd like to see if we (me and you) download the zipped files, can then use the maps in a mapping program on Toughbooks. I'm starting with OPNcpn on a Linux install: http://opencpn.org/ocpn/
The mapping might NOT be supported in OPNcpn, but I'm still going to start here:
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/chart_formats
You might want to use Windows for OPNcpn, or for instance, FoxtrotGPS in Linux. Of course there are many more out there. Please try and report back here. Here is a quote from the first link which motivated me to give a try:
"No longer do we have to rely on corporations, cartographers, or national
institutions to generation mapping data when they get around to it - you can use your own GPS to add information to a map. And chances are people in your area have already done some of it for you. Future Instructables will demonstrate how you can contribute (if you would like) to this resource by updating the map yourself using your GPS. Above are two examples - the first is an OpenStreetMap loaded on my GPS unit that shows not only the roads, but the trails. It clearly shows a Geocache on a trail through the area. The second is Garmin's "Topo Canada" which is similar to "There be Dragons Here" with a cache somewhere in it. I would be left to discover a trail in the area by "Hit and miss".
http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding- ... -Oregon-4/
Canada: http://www.openmapchest.org/maps/canada
USA: http://www.openmapchest.org/maps/united-states
Ignore the ads on the web pages, and look at the bottom for bit torrent downloads
Looks like you can also register and use a direct download
I'd like to see if we (me and you) download the zipped files, can then use the maps in a mapping program on Toughbooks. I'm starting with OPNcpn on a Linux install: http://opencpn.org/ocpn/
The mapping might NOT be supported in OPNcpn, but I'm still going to start here:
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/chart_formats
You might want to use Windows for OPNcpn, or for instance, FoxtrotGPS in Linux. Of course there are many more out there. Please try and report back here. Here is a quote from the first link which motivated me to give a try:
"No longer do we have to rely on corporations, cartographers, or national
institutions to generation mapping data when they get around to it - you can use your own GPS to add information to a map. And chances are people in your area have already done some of it for you. Future Instructables will demonstrate how you can contribute (if you would like) to this resource by updating the map yourself using your GPS. Above are two examples - the first is an OpenStreetMap loaded on my GPS unit that shows not only the roads, but the trails. It clearly shows a Geocache on a trail through the area. The second is Garmin's "Topo Canada" which is similar to "There be Dragons Here" with a cache somewhere in it. I would be left to discover a trail in the area by "Hit and miss".