---
name: "mkgmap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mkgmap"
version: "0.0.0+svn4923-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mkgmap"
---

# mkgmap(1)

Generate Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap data

## NAME

mkgmap - Generate Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap data

## SYNOPSIS

**mkgmap** \[*options*\] *files.osm* ...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **mkgmap** command.

**mkgmap** is a program that converts OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into a map that can be loaded onto a Garmin GPS device.  The mapping between OSM features and the features in the map can be completely customized by writing what we term a "style".

## OPTIONS

- **--help \<filename\>**

  Use this option to get alist of the built in help topics. In particular calling --help=options will list all the available options and is always up to date.

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project is almost entirely based on the file format specification document written by John Mechalas at the SourceForge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/garmin-img.

## SEE ALSO

[**josm**(1)](/josm/1.md), [**qlandkarte**(1)](/qlandkarte/1.md).

## AUTHOR

mkgmap was originally written by Steve Ratcliffe \<sr@parabola.me.uk\> and has been improved by many other people since.

This manual page was written by Andreas Putzo \<andreas@putzo.net\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).