MrThom Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Would like any information on how to merge tar map files. Thanks. Tom Quote Link to comment
+SparkyInCali Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 What kind of maps are they.I thought .tar was a compression format not a map one. Quote Link to comment
MrThom Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 What kind of maps are they.I thought .tar was a compression format not a map one. Well good question and I do not know the answer. Am using "GoogleMaps 2 Trekbuddy" which processes selected google maps and the result is a "tar" file that is then loaded to and read on my phone by the "TrekBuddy" application. Want to take several of these "tar" files and combine them into one file to be viewed on the phone. Quote Link to comment
+SparkyInCali Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Those .tar files you are getting from that website are a tar file which contains a folder called set which contains all of the images and two files that deal with the calibration.You may be able use a tool like winrar to open these tar files and then copy all the images into one set folder and all the assciated .map and .set files and combine them all into one tar file.unfortunatey I currently do not have Java loaded onto my current phones to try this. Quote Link to comment
Biergartler Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Would like any information on how to merge tar map files. If you have two tar files, say, a.tar and b.tar, you can concatenate them using the "-A" command line option: tar -Af a.tar b.tar This will append the files (and their meta-information) in b.tar to the archive a.tar. You may want to work on a copy: cp a.tar new.tar tar -Af new.tar b.tar You can list the contents of an archive produced by tar using the "-t" command line option: tar -tf new.tar What kind of maps are they.I thought .tar was a compression format not a map one. Not exactly. tar (from "tape archive") is a program to collect several files into one, while keeping track of owners, groups, permissions, subdirectories, creation times, etc. Compression is another layer, though some versions of tar can pipe files through compression utilities like bzip. Quote Link to comment
MrThom Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 Two good suggestions. Will give them a try. Thanks for the assistance.. Thom Quote Link to comment
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