Map Updates 16.10.2009

Bug Correction: Cycleways are back (werde dropped in some cases)

New Feature: Search index now installed by default – this means searching Adresses is enabled. Germany and Alps will probabely not work however – mkgmap is not yet able to write such a huge index. Search index cannot yet work if you join several maps (create_mapsource_installationfiles.bat)! (might cause crash when clicking on "find place" in Mapsource. Dunno what happens on GPS (assume you will crash it too). You have to run install*.bat again after downloading the updates! Also Search index cannot work if you use create_gmapsupp.img.bat

Routing Improvement: Annoyed about needing to slow down for traffic lights? Then this update is for you. Routes near to Traffic lights will be avoided if possible! Some more improvements taken. Now inside of big cities primary, secondary and tertiary highways are avoided at all cost (I got some pretty good rules about knowing whether or not a highway is in a big city, will only work for well mapped cities like big cities in Germany/Austria/Netherlands). On the countryside however theese roads are slightly upgraded.

From 5 routes over 10km that I used to ride my bicycle to work/school/university 4 now route as […]

October 15th, 2009 | 14 comments

Map Updates 12.10.2009

Changes:

-Important:

Maps have to be reinstalled on update this time, due to changes of gmt.exe (gmaptool).

Major change to naming roads, In order for the search address function I had to change this quite drastically. I hope that someday I can reimplement the suffixes that are now missing.

— If using the address index then searching for streetnames starting with "A" and "B" is not possible, also on GPS only possible to search for addresses in the tile of last GPS Fix (both mkgmap bugs, hopefully solved soon)

-Minor

Changed mtbroute from 0x14 to 0x27 – this means that mtb routes will still be visible zoomed far out on Vista/Legend which they somehow were not before (fine in Mapsource though)

Changed residential with servie 0x07 vs 0x08.

Search index can now be installed using "create mapsource installationfiles.bat" – not yet installed by default. May even break sending maps to GPS if installed – please don’t report bugs related to this. Search index cannot be included when creating maps with "create gmapsupp.bat", because the structure of the search index has to be changed by Mapsource.

October 12th, 2009 | 2 comments
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