Hi Randolph, in what situation do you use these codes? I am happy with the mapids generated by splitter. Gerd ________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Randolph J. Herber <army.bronze.star@gmail.com> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. April 2020 15:13 An: Development list for mkgmap; Ticker Berkin Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter and options --description / --geonames-file Hi, all, The Definition of Google Plus Codes, a.k.a. Opern Location Codes, can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code The complete code also specifies, by its length, the size of the area being described. When using them in splitter, I have never seen a tile whose code was longer than 8 characters, an area 250m east to west and 125m north to south. I use the largest OLC centered on the tile in question that fits within the tile. Randolph J. Herber On 4/8/2020 4:59 AM, Ticker Berkin wrote:
Hi Gerd
I'd say that if the splitter is going to generate descriptions per tile (geonames) it should generate one for each tile and, if there isn't a centre of a city within the tile and no default description, it should use a modified form of the nearest city to make it unique from a possible adjacent tile that might use the same city.
Maybe something like "GB-~Basingstoke", but no solution is ideal and there could still be duplicates.
The splitter could keep track of which names were have been used and, for the ones outside the tile, added an increasing suffix number, so would have "GB-Basingstoke-2" etc
Ticker
On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 08:38 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
Hi all,
this is a follow up of http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/documentation-i mprovement-tp5962609p5962747.html
Since I don't use these options for my maps I am unsure what is best. The --geonames-file option tries to find a city within the calculated tile. If none is found it either writes the value given with --description or just a comment. I think it would be best to always write the nearest city.
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