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1 Contents
1 CONTENTS .................................................................................................................. 2
2 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 5
2.1 PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT .................................................................................. 5
2.2 BASIC CONCEPTS..................................................................................................... 5
2.2.1 What is Polish Format (PFM)?......................................................................5
2.2.2 What is cGPSmapper?....................................................................................5
2.2.3 What is sendmap?........................................................................................... 5
2.3 DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS...................................................................................... 5
2.3.1 PFM Code ......................................................................................................5
2.3.2 cGPSmapper versions ....................................................................................6
2.4 MANUAL AUTHORS .................................................................................................6
3 OVERVIEW .................................................................................................................7
4 MAP PROJECT ...........................................................................................................8
4.1 MAP CREATION .......................................................................................................8
4.2 PFM SYNTAX DESCRIPTION.....................................................................................8
4.2.1 Header ............................................................................................................9
4.2.2 Declarations .................................................................................................14
4.2.2.1 Countries........................................................................................................................................ 14
4.2.2.2 Regions .......................................................................................................................................... 14
4.2.2.3 Cities.............................................................................................................................................. 15
4.2.2.4 Chart Info....................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2.3 Advanced Declarations.................................................................................17
4.2.3.1 Background.................................................................................................................................... 17
4.2.3.2 Dictionary ...................................................................................................................................... 17
4.2.3.3 Highways ....................................................................................................................................... 18
4.2.3.4 ZIP Codes....................................................................................................................................... 18
4.2.3.5 Definitions...................................................................................................................................... 18
4.2.4 Body (Objects) ..............................................................................................18
4.2.4.1 Point of Interest.............................................................................................................................. 18
4.2.4.2 Polygon .......................................................................................................................................... 20
4.2.4.3 Polyline .......................................................................................................................................... 22
4.2.4.4 Point of Interest from OziExplorer................................................................................................. 23
4.2.4.5 Polyline or Polygon from OziExplorer........................................................................................... 23
4.2.4.6 Shapes............................................................................................................................................ 24
4.2.4.7 MapDekode file.............................................................................................................................. 28
4.2.4.8 File ................................................................................................................................................. 29
4.2.5 Object elevation............................................................................................ 29
4.2.6 Road numbers...............................................................................................30
4.3 MARINE CHARTS ...................................................................................................31
4.4 LEVELS..................................................................................................................39
4.4.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................39
4.4.2 Concepts and Terminology........................................................................... 40
4.4.3 Using levels when defining map objects.......................................................42
4.4.3.1 Tailoring shape according to level. ................................................................................................ 43
4.4.4 Idiosyncrasies of GPS hardware ..................................................................44
4.5 DICTIONARY..........................................................................................................44
4.5.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................44