Sounds good Wanmil, a separate style file for generating the overview map is also a good thing. I have succesfully updated the overview maps for my Europe maps with the patch, it is already an improvement to see no blank maps anymore when zooming out!
Wanmil wrote: > What about the following ideas: > > 1. Retrieve the data from the highest instead of the lowest level. The > lowest level often contains fragmentary data, e.g. have a look a the > boundaries in your example image > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/file/n5754697/africa_overview.png > The data could be merged so that long ways are created that do not > fall > through the filters (DouglasPeucker etc.). The MapReader.linesForLevel > and other methods must have filters that returns only selected garmin > id > types. > > 2. Use a separate overview style file and fetch the Garmin ids out of > it. Then use these Garmin ids to build the overview map. I think the > overview map should be configurable (one likes to see motorways, > others > like to see rivers etc.) > Maybe it would also be possible to add a special overview statement or > use special overview levels in the normal style files to achieve the > same. > > 3. In case --precomp-sea parameter is set the data from an additional > file in the precompiled sea folder is used. > > WanMil _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
