March 2013 - mkgmap-dev - The mkgmap lists

Why does the --process-exits option only work on motorways
by Franco Bez 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Hi everybody, first of all I'd like to say that the --process-exits option does a marvelous job on motorways. The display on the Nüvi 40 finally shows sensible texts. Now I'm wondering why this option only works for motorways. IMHO trunk roads are almost the same thing from a driver's point of view. So motorways and trunk roads should be handled in a very similar manner. It would vastly improve the displayed texts on the Nüvi. Currently I get "Roundabout" in the display on almost every trunk exit. ( Down here in Bavaria it's quite fashionable to have roundabouts distributing the traffic from and to trunk roads. ) Or is there any deeper reason for --process-exits option only working on motorways ? Ciao, Franco

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Commit: r2519: Add check for JRE 1.7 and issue a warning if a lower release is used
by svn commit 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Version 2519 was committed by wanmil on Thu, 07 Mar 2013 Add check for JRE 1.7 and issue a warning if a lower release is used mkgmap will support JRE 1.7 only until June 2013 (?)

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zip files
by Roger Calvert 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Mkgmap can read Bounds files and Style files from a zip file (and Splitter can read geonames from a zip file). Would this also be possible for precompiled sea, which comes from navmaps.eu as a zip file? Thanks, Roger -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roger Calvert ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Commit: r2517: make no-poi-address option work again. The real option name
by svn commit 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Version 2517 was committed by steve on Wed, 06 Mar 2013 make no-poi-address option work again. The real option name is now --poi-address which is on by default. Use --no-poi-address to disable. This is how it was before the --no- prefix was made generic.

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Polygons deformed
by --enrico 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi, I see that the polygons are deformed in MapSource compared to the online openstreetmap view. When I draw a polygon, I make perfect line and angles but when I see it compiled in MapSource it is not the same form. I don’t understand why. Thanks

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Style function is_connected ?
by chris66 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, would a new style function is_connected() be difficult to implement ? It should result "no" for example on this way: <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/45838172> Because it is not connected to any other highway. Benefit: You could make such routing islands non routable. Greetings Chris

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unicode
by Robert Joop 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

While reading the code, I stumbled upon code such as if ("unicode".equals(charset)) in src/uk/me/parabola/imgfmt/app/labelenc/CodeFunctions.java. mkgmap --help=options does not mention this option, but there’s a line #OSMDATA = --charset=unicode localtest/osm/czech_test.osm in the Makefile. So I tried this option, but what I got looks like all characters transliterated to just ASCII. Oops? I guess what I actually want to ask: since we’ve seen that newer devices have a rich character repertoire containing latin based, greek, cyrillic and arabic, I wonder whether it is only possible to access them via code pages, limiting us to a subset every time. Do you know whether there’s unicode support in recent devices? rj

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city of riga not found
by Rich 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

what i did : - generated a map with mkgmap r2479, splitter r200 - from geofabrik extract - with --location-autofill --bounds - bounds from http://navmaps.eu/index.php/developers/bound - used the map on garmin etrex vista hcx map does seem to include address information - at least i can find streets. but for some reason it does not find city of riga. there is a boundary : http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=98102157 and node : http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=138908 it finds suburbs of riga, for example : http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=98180985 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=98191103 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=98097860 why not the city ? :) -- Rich

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