Hi Felix,

thanks for the info. I agree that a routable overview map has
not the highest priority.
Reg. multiple levels: I'll try again on the weekend.

Gerd


> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:03:14 -0400
> From: extremecarver@gmail.com
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] merge-lines and routing
>
>
> On 30.04.2013 00:04, GerdP wrote:
> > Felix Hartmann-2 wrote
> >> I am pretty sure, that routing is only done at the lowest resolution.
> >> This doesn't have to be 24 - (but using mkgmap it actually has to be 24
> >> - Garmin City Navigator uses resolution 23).
> > yes, I think mkgmap is fixed on 24, but many places in the source code
> > don't check for res==24, but level==0, that makes it difficult to
> > understand.
> >
> >
> > Felix Hartmann-2 wrote
> >> Maybe confusion is caused by routable basemaps?
> > yes, maybe the informations that I found while working on the
> > overview map confused me. I like to find out if and how this
> > can be used for routing, that's why I got stuck in the
> > overview2 branch.
> >
> > Gerd
> I just checked the overview map of City Navigator. You're right it is
> routable (only at level 0 of course). So maybe Basecamp/Mapsource use it
> for long distance routing. However there is basically not much in them
> that is routable.
>
> Highways are universally road_class=4, road_speed=6,
> important primary rods are road_class=2, road_speed=4
> and less important primary roads --> especially those that are
> "dead-end" on the overview map, are road_class=1, road_speed=3.
> Some trunk roads --> (Schnellstraßen) especially in Germany are
> road_class=3, road_speed=5.
>
> The speeds / classes on the primary roads, don't necessarily correspond
> with the speed/class in the actual map.
> I don't really know though, if OSM material is of any use for creating
> such a routable basemap/overview map. The oveview map of City Navigator
> is very generalized. Highways are not entered for each direction as
> oneway, but as twoway streeets.
>
> So we would need to get some non OSM generalized map data - in order to
> create a working routable basemap.
>
> I would say that getting several map layers into the overview map,
> should be implemented first. Of course also for Overviewmaps, ONLY the
> level=0 is routable, just like for normal map images. Additional levels
> aren't routable. Then at some point we might need to move to static
> basemap content, based on either super simplified OSM, or based of some
> other databases...
> >
> >
> >
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