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I’ve decided to take some time and fix GroundTruth bugs which were kindly reported by users in the past month. Nothing revolutionary, but there are also some minor improvements. Here’s a complete list:

• added the “-nocgp” option to just generate the polish files, without using cgpsmapper. This will be useful for those who would like to tweak the polish file before actually generating an untweakable? IMG file.
• “-osmfile” option is now used instead of “-osmfiles”. If you need to specify more than one OSM file, use “-osmfile” multiple times (together with “-mapname” option for each of these OSM files). This is actually an interface change and also a bug fix: looks like MapSource doesn’t like having two maps with the same name. Look at few lines below…
• GT now generates registry file for deleting the map from MapSource (in addition to the existing “add” one). So you can destroy those ugly looking GroundTruth maps and they won’t appear in MapSource again… ever…
• BUGFIX: GT now requires that each OSM file has its own map name.
• BUGFIX: the type IDs are now always written as hexadecimal values. There was some problem with using decimal values (thanks for reporting, Frederico)
• BUGFIX: problems with OSM objects which are used by more than one relation. Now there shouldn’t be problems
• BUGFIX: “DummyPath.img” is now always looked for in the GroundTruth’s directory, not the current one. BTW DummyMap.img is used to “reset” the GPS unit before sending the actual map using SendMap.

The download location (as always): http://downloads.igorbrejc.net/osm/groundtruth/

That’s it for now. I’ll try to add isohypses/contours support soon.

If you find GroundTruth and other software I’m developing useful, please consider sending me a small donation via Paypal. I’ll put it to good use (hmmm should I buy a Ferrari or a Porsche?).  And thanks again to those that contributed in these times of recession…