Magellan Maperitive Render Rules

Ruleset for Maperitive, with high-contrast color scheme for tourism and mapping.

The ruleset was developed for using with the Magellan Triton / Explorist GPS for several purposes: tourism, traveling and for cartographic use, gathering data and OSM editing. The generated tiles also can be used with other devices and smartphones. For example in the OsmAnd app.

Features

• Support for the latest and rare OSM tags: natural=gully, natural=earth_bank, natural=valley, waterway=drystream, leisure=resort, amenity=social_facility, landuse=abandoned, abandoned:*, exit=no and fixme=continue at the end of the road, drinking_water=yes/no for springs.
• The high contrast, increased lines and font thickness for convenient outdoor use in GPS.
• Color scheme is based on the original style of Magellan GPS vector maps.

Screenshots

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Map creation for Magellan Triton/Explorist

• Download Maperitive and install it.
• Add files from Magellan style to Maperitive directory.
• Load and apply Magellan rules with the command line:

use-ruleset location=Rules/Magellan.mrules as-alias=magellan
apply-ruleset

• Generate tiles using the generate-tiles command. e.g. for 13-17 zooms:

generate-tiles minzoom=13 maxzoom=17

• Create a Magellan RMP map file using Mobile Atlas Creator. Use custom source script for local tiles:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<localTileFiles>
	<name>Maperitive</name>
	<sourceFolder>C:\Maperitive\Tiles</sourceFolder>
	<backgroundColor>#000000</backgroundColor>
</localTileFiles>

• Transfer RMP maps to the GPS device through VantagePoint.

Hints

• The map size should not be more than 18000 to 18000 pixels (for Triton).
• It is more convenient to use only some zooms with Magellan GPS. For example 10, 12, 13, 15, 17.
• Do not forget to disable Web Map source in Maperitive, before tiles generation.
• If you need a large areas, such as the whole region, (or the whole country) you can download the files that have already been cut into the areas (other countries)

Authors and License

Ruleset is written by Eugeny Novikov and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

Rules based on default rendering rules for Maperitive, created by Igor Brejc, Updated by Michael <quelbs_at_gmail.com> and Ole Nielsen

Icons used: Map icons CC-0 from SJJB Management