On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:45:03PM +0100, Jeroen Muris wrote:
At the moment, I'm merging my own custom style with the default, and I'm wondering about the use of code 0x10 for landuse=residential in the polygons file. Is 0x10 a standard Garmin code for residential areas?
It is not. I just made it up, because it seemed to render fine in my Edge 705.
If not, isn't 0x01/0x02/0x03 a better choice (0x03 is already in use for place=village)?
Could be. I guess that we should revise the polygon rules very soon. Do you agree with my idea that the landuse=residential and building=* polygons should be mutually exclusive? That is, show only the landuse=residential on higher zoom levels and only the buildings on lower zoom levels?
BTW: I hope to be able to switch completely to the default style and then fit my TYP file to that. When I'm done with that, is there any interest for that TYP file?
Yes. We could have multiple TYP files for the default style. Minko's Mapnik.TYP can be good for newer devices, while cferrero and I seem to prefer simpler "non-spaghetti" layout that works on older devices. I would prefer to have an open source TYP file generator or editor, so that changes to the TYP file could be tracked. But I guess we can live with binary-only TYP files, if there is no other choice. Marko