Map Updates 22.10.2010

After I have not had time to work on the openmtbmaps for the two recent updates, for this time I did update quite a few things again. Upon request also Israel is now available for download (but if not 1000 ways with mtb:scale due in 6 month in Israel, I'll kick it out again)

I slightly changed the autorouting to get a higher focus on technical trails (hope it works, inside Mapsource/Basecamp there is basically no difference - even though the changes are quite big on the style-file). On my Vista HCx routing improved a bit so I hope this goes as well for other GPS.

I harmonized the path colors a bit, to get sac_scale more in line with mtb:scale/tracktype patterns. So now patters should be more or less same difficulty, independant of coulor.

railway=platform is now routable too and I hope to have done good progress in hiding tunnels that are not open to the public.

 

P.S. today a new Garmin Basecamp version (3.1.1) has gone public which offers quite a few new nice features (e.g. full screen map mode). Unluckily it seems pretty unstable (had many crashes doing various stuff - though older version basically never crashed on my system). Also some problems with maps and integrated contourlines on zoom levels 20-100km. Cannot really recommend the update therefore.

BTW: from now on (officially) I'll only write posts on map updates when something gets changed. Maps are updated once weekly as usual.

 

Map Updates 30.9.2010

So after last weeks mkgmap Updates have settled, I verified that everything is working, and now for this weeks updates mkgmap.jar is again on bleading-edge SVN trunk.

Furthermore I did some work on naming for POIs and remove quite a few useless (for orientation or tourism/outdoor related subjects) shops from being rendered.

I also adapted all batchfiles (for contourline installations)  to work with the newest mkgmap.jar version -  they will however still work with older mkgmap.jar releases (make sure it's not dated more than 3-4 month though...)