[gdal-dev] Garmin .img data?

[Andre Joost]

Am 19.12.2014 um 17:39 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
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> Hi Even,
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> Il 19/12/2014 17:01, Even Rouault ha scritto:
>> Probably perhaps nobody has written it. The link you gave doesn't
>> link much information about the format. Is it the vector format
>> described at http://sourceforge.net/projects/garmin-
>> img/?source=typ_redirect ? If so, a quick skimming of it would lend
>> me thinking that read support should be possible, although likely
>> not a trivial effort (41 pages for an unformal specification is
>> quite significant). Write support and interoperability with Garmin
>> devices would probably be harder as I can see quite a few ??? in
>> the document.
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> thanks for your reply. I imagined this, but I was surprised by the
> fact that apparently small projects were able to read the format
> without much difficulty.
> Going to ask qmapshack dev.

Just for the record:

The Garmin img format has been inofficially reverse engineered, and used 
to create own maps. This page gives an overview of the software that is 
used to make Garmin maps from OSM data:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin#Software

Greetings,
André Joost