This is great news. The overview map was one of the biggest deficiencies in mkgmap until now.
So thanks to Gerd and well done. Also a lot of bugs have been fixed along the way, so I would like to acknowledge that too. I will put up a news item on the website this evening and push out notices to freecode. ..Steve GerdP <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >finally I've merged r2629 into trunk. > >A brief description of the changes: >1) new or changed options >--overview-levels > like levels, specifies additional levels that are to be written to the >overview map. Counting of the levels should continue. Up to 8 >additional >levels may be specified, but the lowest usable resolution with >MapSource > seems to be 11. > >--remove-ovm-work-files > If overview-levels is used, mkgmap creates one additional file > with the prefix ovm_ for each map (*.img) file. > These files are used to create the overview map. > With option --remove-ovm-work-files=true the files are removed >after the overview map was created. The default is to keep the files. > >--polygon-size-limits=limits code >Allows to specify different min-size-polygon values for each >resolution. > Sample: > --polygon-size-limits="24:12, 18:10, 16:8, 14:4, 12:2, 11:0" >If a resolution is not given, mkgmap uses the value for the next higher > > one. For the given sample, resolutions 19 to 24 will use value 12, > resolution 17 and 18 will use 10, and so on. > Value 0 means to skip the size filter. > Note that in resolution 24 the filter is not used. > >2) Optimizations: >- The polygon filter allows larger polygons. >- SeaGenerator generates fewer "sea-only" and "land-only" polygons when > > precomp-sea is used. >Both reduce the img size, esp. for maps containing large "sea only" >areas. > >3) Changes regarding styles: >- The support for the out-aged map-features.csv file was removed >- Level ranges can now use min-max or max-min >- Usage of polygon type 0x4a will be flagged with --check-styles > >4) Other changes >- A few checks are performed regarding the plausibility of the given >options >and input files >to help beginners. > > > > > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/overview-map-tp5763471.html >Sent from the Mkgmap Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >_______________________________________________ >mkgmap-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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