Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

Which IDs are you using? Looks like the problem I had when I used the background ID 0x4b for land. I have now: - 0x4b background - 0x32 sea - 0x26 natural=land

I had used a different ID for land and have two for sea, so I changed the ID for land to 0x26, in vain. But what looks even worse than a rectangular crop from Europe is Italy from geofabrik with my settings. Looks like a patchwork tapestry in mapsource. If you have some spare time could you perhaps create a map from Italy (geofabrik)and look whether it looks good in mapsource? Thanks a lot in advance, Dani

On 19/03/2011 20:33, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

On Sat, Mar 19, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:

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If you have some spare time could you perhaps create a map from Italy (geofabrik)and look whether it looks good in mapsource?

Ok, using the data from geofrabrik I created a map for you: http://osm.thkukuk.de

The page is in german, but I think you will find the map for italy ;) The archive contains a installer for MapSource, but you should make sure that neither mapsource nor basecamp are running if you install the map.

I only see a rectangle in the upper right corner which is not ok. Don't know why that is, else on a quick view it looked ok for me.

Thorsten

Ich auch...something odd's going on in the Gulf of Venice: http://www.cferrero.net/maps/img/italy.png There's also strange things going on with the national border around Sardinia: http://www.cferrero.net/maps/img/sardinia.png And with the Isle of Man and the Lake District National Park in the UK: http://www.cferrero.net/maps/img/lake_district.png mkgmap r1893, by the way. -- Charlie

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:17:56AM +0100, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:

My map of Italy has glitches at the exact same spots, but they look a little bit different. It seems to me that a rectangular crop from Europe has fewer glitches than maps that show just a single country. Perhaps it has also to do with polygones that have to be closed automatically?

For what it is worth, the Geofabrik extract of Finland needs some special treatment for mkgmap processing. I carefully selected the tiles so that the coastline in the south-east corner of the map ends outside the tile boundary. In the northwest, it was impractical to do this, so I had to enable extend-sea-sectors for one tile, in order to close some coastline that is outside the Finnish border. Before I moved to osm.pbf processing, I had a sed or Perl script that moved the endpoints of the coastline outside the then tile borders. That worked too, but I no longer want to use the XML, for example, by editing the osm.gz tiles from the splitter. Marko