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Commit: r1320: Branch for combining several maps into a gmapsupp.
by svn commit 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Version 1320 was commited by steve on 2009-10-26 19:46:01 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) BRANCH: mapset Branch for combining several maps into a gmapsupp. That is maps with different family-id (and/or product-id).

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Commit: r1265: Added --drive-on-left, --drive-on-right and --check-roundabouts options.
by svn commit 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Version 1265 was commited by markb on 2009-10-06 21:30:02 +0100 (Tue, 06 Oct 2009) Added --drive-on-left, --drive-on-right and --check-roundabouts options. --drive-on-left --drive-on-right Explicitly specify which side of the road vehicles are expected to drive on. If neither of these options are specified, it is assumed that vehicles drive on the right unless --check-roundabouts is specified and the first roundabout processed is clockwise. --check-roundabouts Check that roundabouts have the expected direction (clockwise when vehicles drive on the left). Roundabouts that are complete loops and have the wrong direction are reversed.

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Does road segmentation influence routing?
by Nakor 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hello, I was driving north on I-75 around http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.9038214683533&lon=-83.6452031135559&zo… when I approached exit 109, my GPS indicated to stay on the left. This is a motorway with a motorway_link going out of it as usual and I was wondering why I ot that message? Would it be because the motorway is split by a bridge just one node south of the junction? Thanks, N.

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help with --index
by Bennie du Plessis 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, I still cannot get --index to work on the GPS. Find places in Mapsource is available, but the state/province is greyed out. In the GPS address search is still unavailable. It requires a province name, which it can’t find.(nothing new, but expected to be solved with --index) I set the --region-name & --location-autofill, but it does not seem to have an effect. City search in Mapsource shows City, City, Country indicating that the region info is maybe lost somewhere (if I understand this correct it should be City, City, Region, Country). This is actualy confusing. If I compile without --region-name, the Find shows up as City, City (leaving out the default ABC *country*name that shows up when compiled with --Region-name=***).Does this mean that region is actualy an alternative for country and not for province? The problem could also be device specific. I use a Nuvi 200W (SW Ver 4.00 & unwilling to update), and maybe it just can't cope, but it seems to me that the region province info is already missing in MapSource, so I don't want to give up on the device just yet. Could it be insufficient OSM data? I don't understand relations very well, but I have seen is_in info in the data, with province names (although I don't see where the device will be informed that it is a province name). Should the province be set as a point / node somewhere or is province / region data just collected from cities' / streets' is_in info, or maybe from the relations of admin borders? Shouldn't --region-name option overide bad OSM data in this case (I mean provide region info that is not available from the OSM data- but then again if region is not equivalent to province it won't help) What exactly is the difference between --region-name and --country-name? Can someone please direct me to an OSM area (small if possible) that is known to work correct, and indicate the --options used to compile a map. My apologies if this is a known issue and I missed it somewhere. Zipped forum archives remains unavailable to me. Do you plan to include --index in resources\help\en\options soon? Something like: --index creates mdr & mdx files to enable address searching. It will make the FIND PLACES function in MapSource available, and should enable address searching on a GPS if the maps are send to the GPS via mapsource. If --overview-mapname is not specified it will default to "OSM Map". This will make --road-name-pois redundant if the GPS unit is compatible. *Should the --tdbfile option still be used?* The reg file should look something like this: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Garmin\MapSource\families\FamilyName] "ID"= hex:CD,AB #hex format of family Id; least significant byte, most significant byte; Ax163 Bx162 Cx161 Dx160 "IDX"="C:\\Garmin\\OSM\\ TDBFileName.mdx" "MDR"="C:\\Garmin\\OSM\\ \TDBFileName_mdr.img" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Garmin\MapSource\families\FamilyName\ProductID] "LOC"="C:\\Garmin\\OSM\\ " "BMAP"="C:\\Garmin\\OSM\\ TDBFileName.img" "TDB"="C:\\Garmin\\OSM\\ TDBFileName.tdb" Regards BennieD

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Do we write the region and/or country index wrongly? Still not able to search addresses outside of current maptile on etrex vista hcx
by Felix Hartmann 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

With my etrex Vista HCx I'm still unable to search for addresses outside of the tile with (last) GPS fix. Also in the find address box there is no way to select country even though I sent two maps (Switzerland and Austria) to the GPS via Mapsource. With City Navigator there is allways the country selection box visible and has to be selected for correct finding of addresses / choosing street. This leads me to believe that something with the country index is written wrong and therefore only searching in current tile is possible. Also the cities seem to be missing something, as soon as I type in a letter it says none found (only in address search or intersection search tab, in the city search tab cities are found - except those with Umlauts in their name).

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Creating defect tiles.
by dom 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi, I'm using mkgmap very often and meanwhile it's working really good, but I found something, that some img files are broken. After integrating it into Mapsource, MS is crashing with an error xxxxxxxxxx.img has an broken record. How can I help you to find the problem? What do you nedd to find this issue? Error message, img file, my mkgmap commandline options. Something else? May I send this to the mailinglist? Regards, Marco

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Can you set background colour in a TYP file?
by Mark Burton 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi, Just playing around with TYP files and wondered if it is possible to change the "Garmin yellow" background to anything else using a TYP file? If not, is there any other way of doing that? Cheers, Mark

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Commit: r1337: Fix test for generation of warning message.
by svn commit 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Version 1337 was commited by markb on 2009-10-31 18:06:35 +0000 (Sat, 31 Oct 2009) Fix test for generation of warning message. Also, set result to false so that the turn restriction is not output when the restriction has a via way.

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Commit: r1336: Output info to identify road that fails assertion "NET 1 offset too large".
by svn commit 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Version 1336 was commited by markb on 2009-10-31 16:40:56 +0000 (Sat, 31 Oct 2009) Output info to identify road that fails assertion "NET 1 offset too large".

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FW: Contour Rendering Error with MP files.
by Hilton Long 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:24:20PM -0400, Hilton Long wrote: > The problem DOESN'T EXIST and all contours display correctly if the > map is compiled with R1127. This disagrees with the subject. Which one did you mean, 1127 or 1227? Best regards, Marko Marko, The last build on my machine which renders the contours correctly is R1173. It shows the following image. http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/hosting/viewer.php?image=334 Show the contours rendered correctly. R1187 (next build I have) through 1311 render as follows: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/hosting/viewer.php?image=336 Shows the error at normal zoom. http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/hosting/viewer.php?image=337 Shows the last zoom level where the error is visible. The contours show up correctly in the IMG file viewed in GPSmapedit, but they don't show in MapSource or on my GPSmap60CSX. Regards, Hilton

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