December 2009 - mkgmap-dev - The mkgmap lists

Commit: r1420: Map amenity=embassy to 0x3003, the same code as amenity=townhall.
by svn commit 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Version 1420 was commited by marko on 2009-12-07 19:10:54 +0000 (Mon, 07 Dec 2009) Map amenity=embassy to 0x3003, the same code as amenity=townhall. Suggested by Hendrik Oesterlin, Charlie Ferrero, and Ralf Kleineisel.

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openstreetmap not accepted by Garmin eTrex Venture Cx
by Hadmut Danisch 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi, just a newbie question: I have an older Garmin eTrex Venture Cx with older Garmin City Maps. Now I tried to fill the device with openstreetmaps and downloaded the daily build of the german map, uncompressed it and copied to the Garmin directory of a fresh 2GB flash card and put it into the device. Doesn't work. When turning the device on, at the bottom of the welcome screen a progress bar appears, goes up to 33%, then the device goes into the normal mode, but without providing the openstreetmap or listing it in the selection screen. After upgrading the firmware from 2.80 to 3.40, the only difference is that the progress bar now reaches the 67%. As far as I know, the daily build is made with mkgmap. Is that a known problem? regards Hadmut

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What does --transparent do?
by Nop 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi! I am trying to figure out what the --transparent parameter does exactly. I am aware that it suppresses the creation of the backround rectangle with id 0x4B. But it also seems to influence an element of a file header in TREHeader.config(), setting poiDisplayFlags |= POI_FLAG_TRANSPARENT; I could not figure out what this part means. What does this code do? When is it called? Does it influence the handling of the map on the device? bye Nop

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access rules
by Chris-Hein Lunkhusen 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi, before I start experimenting with a test map: Does someone has an overview, which access rules are implemented in the recent mkgmap versions? For example I believe that motorcar=destination is handeled now without tweaking the style ? Chris

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Commit: r1417: Documentation patches for installing and running.
by svn commit 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Version 1417 was commited by steve on 2009-12-06 23:08:39 +0000 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) Documentation patches for installing and running. - Bennie DuPlessis

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mkgmap and .img names
by Simon Eugster 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Good evening, I'm currently writing a Python script for mkgmap which works on .osm.bz2 files. It stores the Country Name and Abbreviation for each file, and runs tile-splitter and mkgmap to create a Garmin gmapsupp.img. Now I've got a problem. I would like to skip files that already have been processed to a .img file so that, if you want to create a gmapsupp.img containing Switzerland and Germany and then one containing Switzerland only you don't need to re-process the whole Switzerland file. For that it would simplify my work very much if mkgmap accepted * either multiple files with the same name but different path, like switzerland/00000000.img germany/00000000.img * or files with non-8-digit file names like switzerland/switzerland.img germany/germany.img This should not be a hard thing to do, as far as I see, right? If necessary (like if putting multiple .img files into one gmapsupp.img requires the source .img files to have different file names) mkgmap should be able to rename the .img files internally. Greetings from Switzerland, Simon

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mkgmap maps no longer working in TTQV
by Nop 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hi! I have been informed that until recently the maps created by mkgmap could be used in TTQV. This is no longer possible. The change occurred sometime before r1328. I cannot tell you more as I am not using TTQV myself, but someone might want to check what has broken the maps for that software. bye Nop

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Your website makes my pc tired
by Mark Burton 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Please forward this to your website design team. Many of the flash graphics on your webpages use a lot of CPU power on my PC. Could you please provide an option to disable the flash graphics or find some other way to stop them being such CPU hogs. For example, at the moment, your flash graphic "Invent" that has a glowing light bulb is using 45% of the CPU. And it's not a feeble PC. So, instead of keeping a metoffice webpage open all the time, I now have to keep opening and closing it just so that the PC is not sluggish. Thanks, Mark

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Commit: r1409: Add support for generating multiple map objects from a single OSM object.
by svn commit 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Version 1409 was commited by markb on 2009-11-27 20:52:16 +0000 (Fri, 27 Nov 2009) Add support for generating multiple map objects from a single OSM object. The style system is augmented with 'continue' and 'stop' commands that can be used in style rule files to facilitate the generation of more than one map object (line or POI) from a single OSM object. Patch supplied by Felix Hartmann.

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Order of rendering areas?
by Andrew McCarthy 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi folks, This is a cosmetic issue, really, so not urgent. I have a large area marked amenity=university and within that, some buildings, fields, a lake, etc. However, only the university area shows up as it seems to be rendered last; the buildings etc flicker briefly into view while scrolling around, but are hidden when the rendering stops. Does anyone know if it's possible to specify the order things are rendered in? I tried moving the amenity=university way to be the first way in the xml file, but it made no difference. Or is this just the way the etrex behaves? Cheers, Andrew

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