Instruction Manual

ImgOsm
Version 4.0

iPhone Application for

Garmin Img Maps

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FIRST & ONLY iPHONE APPLICATION THAT VIEWS AND NAVIGATES GARMIN MAPS.
Many Free Maps !
Search the Internet for free maps using search words
such as "garmin map'. Download maps from the Inter-
net directly to iPhone or copy the map files directly to
the iPhone directory. Then use the maps without the
need for Internet.
No Internet Connection Required !
It uses the maps in its storage. iPhone's WIFI can be
switched off while using this app unless you access
the online user manual.
Vector Graphics !
Drawings are vector-based using OpenGL, no loss of
original details. Polygons, polylines, points, icons are
painted and rendered in full color and color blending.
Best Class User Interfaces !
Continuous zooming using pinch in/out. Zoom-out
farther than the least detailed level and zoom-in
deeper than the most detailed level. You can even
view a zoomed-out image of detailed level.
Anti-Clutter !
Carefully designed simple user-interfaces. You
choose what to display quickly.
Improved GPS Directional Sensitivity for Walking !
Responsive GPS direction capturing, so you need not
have to walk too far to see where you are heading.
We have a cursor !
Especially for map-maker and GPS enthusiasts, a
cursor that maps the coordinates of finger touches on
the screen.
Highlights
Selectable Unit of Measurement !
Option for kilometers or miles.
Seamless Navigation & GPS Finder !
No confusing "navigation mode on/off" and "view
mode", etc.. You may browse any area of the map
while your GPS location continuously updated. Bring
the GPS location back in view from whereever area
you are browsing.
Choose Your Orientation !
Position your GPS location marker anywhere on the
screen and it will stay there. You choose : your direc-
tion is always towards the top of iPhone and the map
moves around you OR the map always shown with
the True North towards the top of iPhone and your
directional marker rotates on the display.
Dynamic Grid !
Grid lines are curves that mark the divisions of dis-
tances. The Earth is an ellipsoid so are the grid.
POI Finder !
Search named places and areas in Garmin's multi-
levels. Through animation, you will brought to the lo-
cation in the appropriate level.
User POIs!
Create you own POIs and plot in on the same map.
Copy this information to you PC later.
NOTE:
- For Jail-Broken iPhones with OS3.0 and beyond.
- Does not read locked maps.
- May not read maps converted from other formats.
- Try before buying.
- Latitudes of the maps must be within -90° and 90°
with no wrap-around. ie. Cannot handle maps that
spread across the North or South poles. (If there is
such a map).
- Longitudes of the maps must be within -180° and
180° with no wrap-around.
- Garmin maps are our own interpretation, the maps
may appear different with other earlier established
map viewers.
- The symbols, colours, size of objects used are our
own interpretation and do not based on any stand-
ards.
- No auto-routing.
- No turn-by-turn feature.
- Addresses of POIs are not displayed.
 On-Screen Display Areas
Status Text

Screen with both Menu Screen with Menu and Screen without Menu
and Status Text. without Status Text. and Status Text.
Double-tap the
screen to open/
close the Menu at
Press ‘STATUS the bottom.
TEXT’ button to open/
close the Status Text
at the top. When it is
opened, the button’s
Menu background is blue.

In some app versions, the
menu look like this.
Status Text
GPS Status is described in a symbol, latitude, longitude & bearing The Grid Scale - the
=> GPS OK, iPhone is moving. distance per division
of the grid in metric or
=> GPS OK, iPhone has stopped. imperial units, user-
=> GPS is OFF or there is failure. selectable.
Current Garmin Img map
level. Eg. ‘L2’ means ‘Level
2’. The most detailed level
for a Garmin map is Level 0
or L0.

It is the same except the

buttons are re-arranged, Example of ‘Lost
button graphics are GPS Signal’. Going
simpler and there is an through a tunnel.
Location of Point-Of-Interest Location of Cursor.
additional Help button. (POI) or search target. In latitude & longitude.
In latitude & longitude.
 Grid
Earth The Earth is an ellipsoid, projection on flat maps are distorted. The dis-
-180° longitude 180°
tortion gets worse from the Equator towards either poles. On flat maps,
TRUE areas nearer the poles appear larger that they really are. For example,
90° location A rest on the same longitude as C, and location B rest on the
NORTH
A B A B same longitude as D. On a flat map, distance between A & B appears
to be equal to the distance between C & D but in fact the distance be-
C D C D tween A & B is smaller than the distance between C & D.
latitude
Like paper maps, ImgOsm presents a map with the longitudes linearly
at the horizontal axis and the latitudes linearly at the vertical axis. To
map correctly the distortion, ImgOsm uses ellipsoid grid that marks the
distances AND NOT the latitudes and longitudes. Therefore, the lines
-90° of grid are curves.

Blank map of the entire Earth. Lati-
tudes and longitudes are linear but
the grid are curves showing the ac-
tual distances corresponding with
the latitudes and longitudes.
-180° longitude 180°
An example of a region near the Screen without grid and Grid
Equator. The grid curves are gen- Scale.
tle for areas nearer the Equator or
areas that are magnified
(zoomed-in).

90°

latitude
Press ‘GRID’ button
if you do not want to
-90° see the grid and the
Grid Scale. Press
this button again to
show them.
 Map Browsing
ImgOsm has no concept of navigation mode, there is no distinction be-
tween the activities of browsing a map and navigating using GPS.
GPS Location Finder
When you are tracking when you can see a GPS symbol on the screen, You may swipe on the screen to browse the various areas of the map. To
you may browse other areas of the map and later move back to tracking. bring your GPS location back on the screen, press the 'GPS' button.

Shifting and Scaling the Map

Shifting with 1 finger.
Touch the screen with 1 finger, the cursor appears under the finger. Move
the finger without lifting off the screen.

Shifting and scaling with 2 fingers.

Touch the screen with 2 fingers, the cursor appears mid-way between the
2 fingers. Without lifting the fingers, move them closer together (pinch-in)
to zoom-out the map or move them farther apart (pinch-out) to zoom-in.
Press
The zooming effect happens around the cursor and if the cursor is moved,
the
the map is shifted as well.
‘GPS’
button.

Text Levels
To avoid congestion, you choose the amount of text and symbols to display. When the slider is
at 0%, there is no text nor symbols. At 100%, all text and symbols are displayed. Accuracy
- iPhone's build-in GPS is set to operate at the best accuracy and
All text and icons. sensitivity, actual qualitative & quantitative values are not availa-
No text and icons. Some text and icons.
ble.
- Garmin maps has a resolution of about 0.00002° lat. & long..

- It is normal if you GPS location seems off-

center especially on big roads, It could also be
explained that the road was originally meas-
ured in opposite direction and those readings
were used to represent the center of the road.
 Bearing
When the Rotation is OFF, the map is displayed such that the True North is orientated towards the top of the
screen. The grid (if you turn it on) are horizontal and vertical lines. Only the 'Green Arrow rotates in the
same bearing as your direction of travel. eg. If you move South, the 'Green Arrow' points at the bottom of the
screen.
When the Rotation is ON, the direction of travel (Green Arrow) is orientated towards to the top of screen, If a GPS symbol not
everything else are rotated instead. eg. If you make a right turn, the map will rotate anti-clockwise around visible rotation fulcrum
is the Cursor and also
the origin of the grid.
True North is at the top of the Green Arrow is pointing to the This effect is useful for
screen. Cursor points to the top edge of the screen. True finding distance with
top. iPhone is traveling at North, the Cursor and the grid respect to Cursor.
bearing 30°. Green Arrow is at are rotated anti-clockwise 30°.
the same angle as the direc-
tion of travel.

Cursor Cursor
TRUE UE
NORTH TR RTH
NO

Press the Press the

‘Rotation’ ‘Rotation’
button. button again.

If a GPS symbol is visible, it is the fulcrum If the Cursor is OFF,

of rotation and the origin of the grid. the center of the
When the map rotates, a rotational arrow screen is the fulcrum
appears momentarily to you adjust your is the center and the
visual orientation. origin of the grid.
 Settings
Press 'Change' button to display a different
map. The current map is displayed in blue.
See page 'Loading a Map'.

km = metric kilometers & meters.

mi = imperial miles & feet.

Walk = Faster response to directional changes,

less definitive.
Drive = Decisive measurement of direction,
slower response.

Auto = The most appropriate level of resolution

to use based on the current display scale (zoom
levels).
Manual = You want to select the level regard-
less of the display scale.

Press the On = a tone is generated when a button is

‘Setting’ pressed.
button.

Garmin Map Levels

Img Map Level refers to the several levels of resolution available in a sin-
gle Garmin map. The level with the finest resolution is numbered 0. A level
may also contain information not available in other levels.

When Img Map Level = Manual, an extra slider bar appears the menu. In
this example, you can choose any 3 levels (level 2, 1 & 0).
This setting is suitable if you are a map developer and wish to observe the
map in different resolution in different scale. When zoomed-in to low-res
level, expect rough edges and poor rendering. When zoomed-out to hi-res
level, expect slower performance.
 Download, Select & Delete a Map
3 WAYS TO LOAD MAPS INTO iPHONE.
1) If iPhone is jail-broken.
Copy the maps to iPhone directory /private/var/mobile/Library/ImgOsm/Maps
2) If the map resides in a server in its original img format (ie. file with 'img' extension, not zipped).
3) If the map currently resides in your PC/Mac. Type the
At your PC/Mac, unzip it if necessary, upload the file with 'img' extension to your Google personal web- URL here.
site. Go to http://sites/google.com/ for information on how to create your own personal web site, its FREE.
Download map from your website directly into iPhone by following the instructions on this page.

EXAMPLE 1.
When the app is run for the first time, the default URL is http://sites.google.com/site/seewaterdesign/
01999908.img. This is a valid map in our support website. Use this URL to download. Press the
EXAMPLE 2. ‘Download.
At your PC/Mac, go to www.gpsmapsearch.com. Click on the UK flag to select English Language. Click on ..’ button.
Saudi Arabia on the world map. Look for the file '01000000.img' and click 'download archive'. Unzip the
downloaded package. Ignore all files, pick only the file '01000000.img' and upload to your Google website.
Download this file from your website to your iPhone.
THERE ARE MANY FREE MAPS AVAILABLE, PLEASE USE YOUR FAVOURITE SEARCH ENGINE
TO LOCATE THEM.

Press the
‘Change’
button.

Select a
map.

Delete the selected map

from list of maps & from
iPhone's memory.
Press the
‘Setting’ Press to replace the current map with the
button. one just selected. It may take several
seconds to prepare the map for display.
After which the new map is displayed.
 Map POIs
Same POI at Level 2

.Search for your POI by entering its name or

search words, case insensitive. The result of the
search is in the list below. To show all POIs,
leave this field blank.

.A sorted list of the map's POIs with names

matching the Search Text.

The bracketed no. at the end of each POI is the

map level where the POI is recorded. The same Same POI at Level 1
POI may appear in 1 or more levels, however Select the
their GPS coordinates may be slightly different POI & its
because of the differences in resolution. available
level.
Select the POI and you will be brought to its lo-
cation graphically and at its associated level.

Press the Same POI at Level 0

‘POI’ but-
ton.
 User POIs
Copy the coordinates of the GPS
location (if available) to the text
fields.

Copy the coordinates of the Cursor

(if turned ON) to the text fields.

Display the specified location in

the map using the map's current
level & scale. No User POI is cre-
ated.

Create a new User POI

record that will appear in
the list.

.User POI is marked by a

red square with its name
on the right.

Press
The record of the
the
User POI is shown at
‘USER
the display and may
POI’
be modified or delet-
button.

Accept any changes, copy whatever are

shown and create a new record that will ap-
pear in the list.

Accept any changes and re-store the record

again.
Ignore any changes and delete the record.
The deleted record will disappear from the list.