Hi Ticker, I think this was discussed before and that discussion lead to the chapter about template.args. My suggestion would be to add a hint that the last given description is used by the combiners. I found usage in OverviewBuilder, TdbBuilder, and GmapsuppBuilder, not sure what the other combiners use. NsisBuilder and GmapiBuilder should be checked. I don't like the idea to introduce just another "description" option with unclear meaning, we already have so many. I also don't like the idea that we might break backward compatibility. Gerd ________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap@jagit.co.uk> Gesendet: Montag, 6. April 2020 19:01 An: Development list for mkgmap Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] documentation improvement Hi This explains an annoyance I've had with my newer eTrex 30x. On the eTrex HCx, the map selection function uses the --family-name value. The same map on the 30x just gave the name of one of the tiles, which, now I look, was always the last. Putting a final --description after the tile definitions now gives me something that will work sensibly on both. I'd like to request an enhancement that gmapSuppBuilder uses a new option instead of --description. Ticker On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 15:04 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
Hi Mike,
will have a closer look tomorrow. Why do you think that "putting - -description after -c template.args " is incorrect? When you use splitter with the --geonames-file option or with the - -description option the template.args file will set description. If you use both the --description option is ignored. The last given value for description is used for the combiners.
Gerd
________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Mike Baggaley <mike@tvage.co.uk> Gesendet: Montag, 6. April 2020 16:46 An: 'Development list for mkgmap' Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] documentation improvement
Hi Gerd, please find attached a small patch that improves the documentation primarily for the following, but with a few other minor tweaks:
removal of the statement about putting --description after -c template.args, as this incorrect simplification of the description of --style-file as this was confusing clarification that the number of bytes are the file sizes in the Hill Shading section
I note that the '' symbols used to denote arcseconds are being interpreted as italic identifiers <i></i> by whatever process produces the web page. I suggest this process needs to be changed so that this does not happen. I have replaced the first mentions of '' with words. If the process cannot easily be changed, I suggest that the remaining '' symbols are replaced with arc second or arc seconds.
I also note that the --dem-dists mentions that values should be a multiple or submultiple of 3314 or 9942 then goes on to suggest values that are multiples of 3312, which I believe is the nearest value to 3314 that is a multiple of 16. I think the explanation needs some improvement by someone who knows exactly how it works. I have been experimenting with various values of --dem-dists - the default value of 9936 works fine for me at higher resolutions in Basecamp, but becomes very blocky at low resolution. I find --dem-dists=9936,9936,9936,9936,9936,9936,39744,317952 gives the best results for my levels of 0:24,1:22,2:21,3:20,4:19,5:18,6:17,7:15. Based on this, I'd be very surprised if the example in the documentation of --dem-dists=3312,13248,26512,53024 for levels 0:24, 1:22, 2:20, 3:18 gives decent results at resolution 18. However, not having any 1 arc second DEM data, I can't try it.
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