Garmin's MapSource software is hardly the only reason for me to boot
into Windows and it does not look like Garmin ever wants to address
Linux users by writing a portable piece of software. So I started to
help myself. I found several tools like GPSBabel or sendmap to handle
data for my GPS receiver but no tool to visualize and manage this data
in a decent way. On my quest I found a specification of the used IMG
format for maps at Sourceforge. After some reading and toying around I
considered this specification good enough to start a GUI project to
visualize such files. QLandkarte is the result of this effort.
Including additional patches by fseidel@suse.de which are upstream and
tested but not yet released elsewhere.