Map Updates 5. October 2011

Well over the last weeks I had quite a lot to do, so I never got around writing the changes to the maps. So here we go. I hope I remember at least 50% of the changes.

First of all, as you may have noticed, Openmtbmap.org is now also available in Italian. Big thank goes to User "Miellino" (you can find him on here, as well as on mtb-forum.it). It's a huge effort translating the whole site, so fat props to his efforts of not only the translation but also the work he does for OSM in Italy. If you meet him up, please buy him a couple of beers (I'll do if I get the chance…).

 

Then many of you have noticed that the last map update went a bit wrong, and in some countries tiles were missing. That happened as soon as somewhere a double decimal (like 45.54.4) showed up in either elevation or population key. For right now I downgraded the mkgmap version until the bug gets sorted (it's faulty data, but of course mkgmap should not crash on this). Before mkgmap would simply not read in any values with decimal points, so they were […]

October 5th, 2011 | 2 comments

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
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