As well as Africa, how about looking at Hong Kong/Macau/China as an example of a busy land border which switches sides, including this work of civil engineering art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Flor_de_L%C3%B3tus How can we make a map for regular travellers between e.g. Shenzen and Hong Kong? Colin On 2014-11-26 18:26, GerdP wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Colin Smale wrote > >> How can we make the behaviour deterministic where the map area covers both? >> For example, you can't make a rectangular box around the UK without >> including bits of France. If the splitter/mkgmap combo decides to start in >> the bottom right, the whole of the UK will be driving on the right. So I >> don't see when the "detect" option is realistically going to be useful. >> Between the UK and France there is a big bit of water, but there are many >> land borders between dor and dol countries. Can we get a combined map that >> contains both? > > Yes, would be interesting to know how Garmin solves this problem > e.g. in Africa. I don't know how many roundabouts they have which > are likely to fall into a mixed area. > I think Steve said that it is possible to use boundary nodes which are > not all on a straight line, so it would be possible to cut a administrative > boundaries. > > Gerd > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Manage-drive-on-left-drive-on-right-in-resources-LocatorConfig-xml-tp5825418p5825476.html > [1] > Sent from the Mkgmap Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev [2] Links: ------ [1] http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Manage-drive-on-left-drive-on-right-in-resources-LocatorConfig-xml-tp5825418p5825476.html [2] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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