Hi I'd go for the idea of having the specific option eg --add-google-plus. Also, as a slight modification to the patch that increases the area beyond the tile looking for a city, maybe limit it double the tile size before giving up and just describing the tile with the mapName. Ticker On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 06:46 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
Hi Randolph,
when I want to visualize the calulcated areas I use --write -kml=splitter.kml. The output file splitter.kml can be used in JOSM (with a plugin) as well as in Google Earth, if you prefer that. The use in JOSM helps me to find issues where a tile border might be involved.
Anyhow, if others are interested I would use your patch with a different option, something like --add-google-plus which would either add the code to the city name or to the given description or to an empty string so that splitter would always generate a unique tile description.
Gerd
________________________________________ Von: Randolph J. Herber <army.bronze.star@gmail.com> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. April 2020 02:17 An: Development list for mkgmap; Gerd Petermann; Mike Baggaley; Ticker Berkin Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter and options --description / - -geonames-file
Hi, all!
Yes, it helps.
It was not what I had in mind.
[Fragment of template.args showing the OLC or Google Plus Codes that were added.]
These codes can be directly used to show the area in question: EG -Alexandria:8G3F5W00+<https://plus.codes/8G3F5W00+>
[Image of Alexandria, Egypt, area referenced.]
and for an Egyptian area with no cities with a population as large as 15 000: EgyptUC:7GJM0000+<https://plus.codes/7GJM0000+>
[Large area in southern Egypt with no cities as large as 15 thousand people.]
This area is in southern Egypt.
The differences in AreaList.java, in Unix format are in the attached differences file.
The modified AreaList.java files in the attached java file.
Can you now understand what I want and why?
Randolph J. Herber
On 4/9/2020 9:48 AM, Gerd Petermann wrote:
Hi all,
sorry, I think some mails where not sent to the list. I've attached a patch that adds a number to the city name when --geonames-file is used and multiple tiles are close to that city.
I fear I don't know in what situation these names are important. So, please try if this improves something.
Gerd