Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread charlie
Toby Speight (t.m.speight...@cantab.net) wrote: POIs with address information have this in their description when viewed on my eTrex, but the generation of this appears to be hard-coded. It would be nice to be able to have different information in there - opening hours for shops, or

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Minko
Hi, It would be great to be able to add more information to the pois. At the moment the information that can be seen is streetname, number, postal codes and placenames in the properties of some of the pois (the gps can't show this properties box on all kinds of pois unfortunately) I have been

Re: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap and relation 406175

2010-04-15 Thread WanMil
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: relation looks good. You should try to create just a single tile first to see if it's mkgmap or splitter. splitter clips ways from relations outside of the tile and this is a known problem. recent versions of

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] Do not process boundary relations

2010-04-15 Thread WanMil
At the moment processing of multipolygon boundary relations creates a lot of unwanted effects (artificial boundaries on tile bounds, lots of warnings etc.). The patch excludes the boundary relations from the multipolygon processing. This can be changed with the new option

[mkgmap-dev] Recycling menu items in the Oregon

2010-04-15 Thread Daniela Duerbeck
Hi! In the Oregon text strings can be easily changed since they are defined in xml-files in a directory inside the flash file system. I recycled now e.g. truckstop (0x2f16) to amenity=taxi. #amenity=fuel fuel:HGV_diesel=yes [ 0x2f16 resolution 19 ] must be commented out in the point file,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Daniela Duerbeck
Toby Speight wrote: POIs with address information have this in their description when viewed on my eTrex, but the generation of this appears to be hard-coded. It would be nice to be able to have different information in there - opening hours for shops, or telephone numbers for pubs and

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Daniela Duerbeck
Minko wrote: Hi, It would be great to be able to add more information to the pois. At the moment the information that can be seen is streetname, number, postal codes and placenames in the properties of some of the pois (the gps can't show this properties box on all kinds of pois

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 01:02:08PM +0200, Minko wrote: I have been experimenting to 'fool' my Garmin to use addr:streetname etc for some other information and this trick worked. Is the addr:* translation currently hardcoded in mkgmap? Where is it? I found one oddity last year:

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Daniela Duerbeck
Marko Mäkelä wrote: Is the addr:* translation currently hardcoded in mkgmap? Where is it? I think here: MapBuilder.java Search for FIX MY ADDRESS. Around it there are function calls like p.getStreet() and so on. I think here could be (new) functions like p.getWebsite and so on called.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recycling menu items in the Oregon

2010-04-15 Thread Daniela Duerbeck
And there are many other things that can be easily recycled. Have you ever been lost in an unknown city and asked yourself: Where is the next hot spring? Garmin thinks that finding hot springs is essential, so they gave them a menu item. Dani P.S: Etrex Users can do the same, but they have no

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Description text

2010-04-15 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:52:41PM +0200, Daniela Duerbeck wrote: I think here could be (new) functions like p.getWebsite and so on called. I think that it would be better to use the mkgmap: name space for it. The style definition would translate the attributes to, say, mkgmap:description, and