Garmin H GPS Receiver User Manual


 
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Section Type Identifier(s)
Body (Objects)
[POI]
[POLYLINE]
[POLYGON]
[PLT]
[WPT]
[DBX]
[SHP]
[FILE]
[RGN10]
[RGN20]
[RGN40]
[RGN80]
The header section is mandatory and must appear as the first section in the source file. All
other sections are optional. Declaration and advanced sections (if any) must appear after the
header section, in the order specified here. These sections cannot be repeated.
Objects must appear after declaration and advanced sections (if any), may be in any order,
and may be repeated as many times as necessary.
The order of statements in the section body (i.e. between the section keyword statement and
the [END] statement) is insignificant.
4.2.1 Header
[IMG ID]
Section identifier
ID=########
Unique identifier (up to 8 decimal digits) for the map.
May be only written in a decimal format
11000204
Name=map_name
Map name to be displayed in the GPS receiver's Map Info
menu.
Refer to section 7.1 (on page 65) for details.
80 characters maximum.
LBLcoding=x
6 compressed label coding (smallest maps)
9 full-byte (8-bit) coding (supports national
characters, depending on the GPS firmware)
10 Unicode / MBCS (depending on the GPS
firmware)
Default = 6