April 2011 - mkgmap-dev - The mkgmap lists

via ways (rather than nodes) in restrictions
by Charlie Ferrero 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hi, Currently via ways are not used by mkgmap to generate turn restrictions. Is this a limitation in the mkgmap code base, or a fault of the underlying Garmin routing data model? If the former, are there any plans to add support for via ways? -- Charlie

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LOCATOR: doubt about "contains no name tag" messages
by Carlos Dávila 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Processing spain.osm.pbf from Geofabrik I get several "contains no name tag" messages that point to ways tagged in the form: admin_level=8 boundary=administrative It's true they don't have a tag name, but they belong to relations with the same tags + a name and the relation is fully within the tile, so it's supposed they should get the name from the relation. Additionally, there are thousands of ways in Spain tagged in the same way (all administrative boundaries were imported that way) that don't trigger the same warning. As an example you can have a look at way 45338454. It's about 2 km away from the tile border.

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Options overhaul
by Steve Ratcliffe 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi There is a new branch for an overhaul of the options. There are a number of recent (and not so recent!) posts about options that are badly documented, have the wrong defaults or just plain shouldn't exist. The first couple of things I plan to do in preparation are: 1. Make it possible to negate any option by pre-pending it with 'no' (eg --no-route). This has the effect of turning off the option for the following files. This is not currently possible. It will also give a consistent way to turn off options that are by default active. 2. Add a way to document old options and and give a warning that the option is no longer in use and what should replace it if anything. This will allow for options to be removed from the help list, without actually removing them from the program, so as not to break existing scripts. If anyone has any thoughts on how the options could be improved now would be a good time to discuss it. Things already on the list include: --charset, --remove-short-arcs, --ignore-osm-bounds, setting options inside the style (which can already be done, its just not really used properly). ..Steve

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