mapthis - map of germany too large (5,29GB)

[finalmagic2]

hi,

i had seach in the threat, but i didn't find something helpfull.

sry for this stupid post, but i have downloaded the hole map of germany but the size is 5,29 GB already in GPSFS.... my question:

is there a possible to make the map smaller?
the map is to large even for winzip... please help

sry for this english xD

[Nicko01]

wow....
I would just cut off the parts you aren't really going to use.
yes, you can expect maps to be very large if you are using a large area.

[johoo]

yes you can make it smaller

use mib42's gpsfsconverter
it wil make it 50% smaller

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66706
read it all because later on there are other versions

[fischauge]

hi,

i had seach in the threat, but i didn't find something helpfull.

sry for this stupid post, but i have downloaded the hole map of germany but the size is 5,29 GB already in GPSFS.... my question:

is there a possible to make the map smaller?
the map is to large even for winzip... please help

sry for this english xD

How did you download the whole map o_O.
It takes ages to download whole Germany, tried many times but the files are getting to big. :/

[finalmagic2]

lol yeah it sounds crazy xD but i have it xD
if the map small enought to put it on memostick i will upload to rapid ^^

i cut off the zoomlevels 1x and 2x but you even see all the streets ^^ i think its a good map... but its to big...

i had download the tool (gpsfs_util) but it's totaly impossible to cut off the parts i don't need, because they are toooooo many xD especially on zoomlevel 8x and 4x (the last ones) my hand will explode xD

and if i press an the create-q button the program say, that the progress will be finish in 3000h xD

help me ^^

[Nieko]

Do you really need all of Germany with such detail? You might want a less detailed map of all of Germany, and more detailed maps of parts you visit often.

I've made some changes to Map This!, one of which will make Map This! automatically switch to the most detailed map: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...268#post551268.

[finalmagic2]

mmh ... is there no other way?
i had read in the gpsfs_util threat, that a user convert a 2,9 GB map tp 1,9 GB in a few houres... is there no way to convert my map in a day to 3,5GB or so?

[Nieko]

It all depends on your computer of course. Converting the Netherlands from 534MB to 260MB took a few hours I think, on an Athlon XP 1800+.

You could try to find someone with a really fast PC .

[finalmagic2]

hihi what pc do you have xD maybe i have found someone xD nono joke ^^

mmh i think i don't understand the program xD i man i'm stupid ^^

first i must load my map direction (_map123)
then i check no visuals and press analize right?

my map is png based

[johoo]

hihi what pc do you have xD maybe i have found someone xD nono joke ^^

mmh i think i don't understand the program xD i man i'm stupid ^^

first i must load my map direction (_map123)
then i check no visuals and press analize right?

my map is png based

first i loaded the map then
i didn't use the analize but did the quick option
i went from 3.9 gb to 1.9 gb
and it took me about 3 days to finish it