4.5.22. Marco Polo Grosser Reiseplaner

4.5.22.1. Marco Polo Grosser Reiseplaner

Marco Polo Grosser Reiseplanner are extremely detailed digital maps of Europe, split into 5 regions (with Germany having its very own region!). These maps were the first map types which Navit supported.

Note that Navit can only read Grosser Reiseplanner versions 2002/2003 to 2007/2008. Newer versions are currently incomptible with Navit.

4.5.22.1.1. Description

This is a detailed map of Europe. Works with version from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008 versions.

You can buy the latest version from here: http://www.amazon.de/o/ASIN/3829731434/navit-21 (remember the little reward please ;))

Warning: Version 2008/2009 has a different map format and does not yet work with navit

4.5.22.1.2. Installation

This manual was written with a german version of Grosser Reiseplanner aside. So it may differ a bit.

  1. Change directory to where DVD is mounted

  2. Unpack data2.cab with

    unshield x travel/data2.cab

  3. Now, you should get a directory named like DIRLAN_GER. It contains: :* The dem.map folder with all the majors roads and towns of Europe…

    :* …and five smpX.smp folders, which contain the details of countries:

    ** smp1:

    DK,S,N,IS,FIN,N

    ** smp2:

    F,E,GBZ,P,AND,MC

    ** smp3:

    Germany

    ** smp4:

    CZ,SK,RSM,EST,GEO,LV,LT,MD,RUS,UA,BY,GR,H,I,RO,CH,A,PL,AL,MT,CY,BG,FL,SRB,MNE,HR,SLO,BIH,MK,TR,AZ,AM,V

    ** smp5:

    NL,B,GB,L,IRL

    Update your Configuation accordingly. A sample for Germany would be:


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Optional: You can save some space (up to 2G) by deleting all the *d60* files. They are not needed.

4.5.22.1.3. Note for low memory devices

For relatively low memory devices (for example 128MB of RAM) under GNU/Linux, please type as root:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory