Map Updates 27. August

Well for the map updates there was nothing special. I'm currently focussing more on getting an online map together and scouting for Android/Iphone apss cooperations.

Yesterday/Today I did update the Europe Map however (actually I updated it on the 22. already, but there seems to be some memory leak, so it didn't run through very successful – meaning the address index was broken). So from today the Europe maps are updated again. For the next map update I put a lot of work into better identifying what is meant if tracktype and smoothness contradict each other. For the velomap I rather put the emphasis on relying on the worse condition, while for the openmtbmap I rather rely on the good condition…

Also note that Basecamp and seemingly newer generation GPS don't regard the vehicle setting avoidances anymore. Garmin doesn't really accept it as a bug though (they never used avoidances for vehicles in any of their map, and now claim that their maps work (well they never included it until recently in some NT maps that are not reverse engineered and hence unreadable map format). Dunno if they did it on purpose following a motto of "let OSM map […]

August 30th, 2011 | 4 comments

Mid Summer Updates – 6. August 2011

Well during the last weeks I did not have much time to work on the maps themselves, however for Todays/Tomorrows Update I have worked hard to improve the maps. I did quite a lot of work on the POI section, to make it easier to understand and include some more rather new OSM keys.

To be more exact: rework of POI symbols to be closer to standard topographic maps where it makes sense, and complete rework of castle/fortresses/defensive_fortresses and so on based on castle_type. Addition of some new POI like mines, surface_mining, better differentiation monument/memorial and much more (e.g. some new wrongly used keys/values, trying to unilaterally except true instead of yes and so on…)

 

I did not yet manage to upgrade mkgmap to the latest version (did not do enough bugchecking to be sure it works) and did not yet check the create_mapsource_installationsfiles_with_mkmgap batch script if it can be hardened against missing memory. Will do so for the next update.

August 6th, 2011 | Leave a comment