On Wed, May 11, Gary Bamford wrote: > HI, That is what I have done, I produced a gmapsupp.img file using a .txt > file ( the typ info ) and it produces a different map than the same command > but using the same style info but specified as a .typ file.
Most likely: your *.txt file is not in sync with your *typ file or contains errors. After creating the *.txt file from my *.typ file, I had to fix a lot of mistakes in it. Thorsten > > ________________________________________ > From: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of > Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]> > Sent: 11 May 2016 08:54 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Land flooded > > On Wed, May 11, Gary Bamford wrote: > > > HI Gerd. > > > > > > Okay, that leaves just one question, does the conversion from the txt file > > to the typ file have to happen as a separate command, or can i specify the > > txt file as part of a command to make the gmapsupp.img file. > > Instead of specifying the TYP file (file.TYP) you specify the txt > file on the commandline (file.TXT). > > Thorsten > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of Gerd > > Petermann <[email protected]> > > Sent: 11 May 2016 08:49 > > To: Development list for mkgmap > > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Land flooded > > > > > > Hi Gary, > > > > > > just to make sure: > > > > mkgmap can compile a gmapsupp with both formats, when you use the *.typ > > file as input it will copy it into to gmapsupp.img, > > > > maybe after adjusting values like product id, I am not sure about that. > > > > When you specify the text file format it will use its typ file compiler to > > create the *.typ file and use that for the gmapsupp.img. > > > > So, when you see differences using these two different ways you may have > > found a problem in the mkgmap typ file compiler. > > > > > > @Steve: I hope that I got this right? > > > > > > Gerd > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Von: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> im Auftrag von > > Gary Bamford <[email protected]> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 10:05 > > An: Development list for mkgmap > > Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Land flooded > > > > > > Hi Gerd > > > > That's where I was going wrong then, I was speciying the typefile as a txt > > file, and not a typ file. > > > > > > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/news/2012/02/17/typ-file-compiler > > > > > > > > I assumed that also meant that the map complier would also allow for a txt > > file input of styles > > > > [http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/static/img/logo.png]<http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/news/2012/02/17/typ-file-compiler> > > > > TYP file compiler - > > mkgmap<http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/news/2012/02/17/typ-file-compiler> > > www.mkgmap.org.uk > > Another recent feature added is the ability to compile TYP file from the > > .txt format. There is no special option needed, just place the .txt file on > > the command line ... > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of Gerd > > Petermann <[email protected]> > > Sent: 11 May 2016 07:58 > > To: Development list for mkgmap > > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Land flooded > > > > > > Hi Gary, > > > > > > not sure what you mean with "when I use the text file output" here. The > > device needs the *.typ format, it > > > > doesn't understand the text file format. Or do you mean that you feed > > mkgmap with the text file format > > > > and the resulting *.typ file doesn't work ? > > > > > > Gerd > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Von: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> im Auftrag von > > Gary Bamford <[email protected]> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 09:51 > > An: Development list for mkgmap > > Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Land flooded > > > > > > Hi Gerd. > > > > > > Thanks for the information. The problem gets a little stranger, I use a > > software package called TYPViewer ( v4.5.35 ) to edit the type files, it > > has two outputs, one produces a typ file the other produces a txt file. If > > I use the typ file output I get the map I expect ( without having to > > specify --transparent or --generate-sea=land-tag=natural=background ) the > > sea is where it should be, if I use the text file output from TYPViewer > > then I have problems. > > > > > > Lessen to learn, use the typ file output. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Gary > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mkgmap-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > > > -- > Thorsten Kukuk, Senior Architect SLES & Common Code Base > SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev -- Thorsten Kukuk, Senior Architect SLES & Common Code Base SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
