Map Updates 29. June 2012

Well so after introducing the gmap maps earlier this week, I spent a lot of time cleaning up the style once again. I threw out some not really needed stuff like entrances or farmland and made some symbols smaller.

 

Currently I'm still not sure what I should do about restaurants and shops. On the countryside the POI are very useful, in a city they much rather clutter the map too much. On the Desktop using Garmin Basecamp, it's easy to disable showing any restaurants, or shops via the options menu (and creating a second profile that shows them, if one want to switch). However – how many people know such functions and use them? On the GPS the declutter works quite fine, again – how many people activate this function?

I of course wouldn't throw them out of the map, but rather just give them small dots instead of a proper symbol.

 

Besides I implemented the shelter_type key and added man_made dam & pier also as area and not only as a line. Actually there were many more changes, but I muddled up the SVN commits, and no cannot really remember all of them. Mostly are many small […]

giugno 29th, 2012 | 3 comments

Openmtbmap map Updates 24. June 2012

Well long time no post… here is an update what changed over the last 3 weeks.

 

First of all, there was quite a lot of debugging/progging on the the mkgmap address search index, especially related to mkgmap creating the address index itself, instead of Mapsource (and needed a lot of testing to make sure it works now). As of mkgmap rev 2306, this is now more or less solved – and the address index created by mkgmap is identical to the one written by Basecamp/Mapsource. The differences could have been responsible for the "memory full" bug that affected some Garmin GPS devices.

Besides now mkgmap can create a working address search for maps including contourlines (option 0 on create_gmapsupp_with_mkgmap.bat) – before one might have ran into the "choose country/state bug". So I reenabled the address index on option 0 in the last map update.  However, it slipped me that mkgmap changed some behavior on the trial runs (it works now like much older mgkmap versions" – so currently the batch files using mkgmap will complain about old version. You can fix it by changing line 13 (or around there)  in the batch files from if exist test1_mdr.img goto :error3 […]

giugno 25th, 2012 | 7 comments
 
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