thx for the info.
Both OsmAnd and the map
I created using usa-south-latest-osm.pbf
(which avoids merging)
Are working fine. So I will stop using the other
method of map creation. No real problem 
to report at this time. Not quite sure why
I am even pursuing this other than to learn
a little about OsmAnd and its tools. And I guess
also a desire to get OsmAnd running fast on
a some old low end phones that I still have.
As a 61 year old retired electrical engineer I'm
kind of blown away at how much power I can hold
in my hands. When I join the work force
a CRAY 1 ran at 100Mhz and had 64MB of memory.
My cell phone is 10 times that. Jeez.
Kevin



On Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 9:56:36 AM UTC-5, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> [email protected] <javascript:> writes: 
>
> > Sorry if this seems like am beating a dead horse on a boring topic. 
> > But it seems my flow has problems. Using osmconvert and osmfilter and 
> > create a final merge southeast_usa.obf that allows fast routing has 
> > serious problems. 
> > 
> > At state boundaries I am getting severed interstate highways. Found by 
> > a refusal route down a single section of highway. If I just filter 
> > each state to keep only the high level roads and then bring in each 
> > state separately and let osmand manage the routing across each states 
> > .obf file, it all looks good. So I can not create single merged 
> > version of a filtered .obf file.  I apologize if I am lost in the 
> > woods here. But it has been an useful learning experiment for me. 
>
> This sort of problem has cropped up in multiple places (in the osm 
> database itself, in garmin maps).   The basic issue is that the routing 
> program has to view the roads as connected in order to route across 
> them. 
>
> That means, more or less, that there is a node that is a member of the 
> way coming from one state and also a member of the way going into the 
> other state.  It is critical that this be the same node, not a second 
> node with the same coordinates! 
>
> In the osm case, roads were imported from the state of Massachusetts per 
> town, and each road that reached a boundary had its own node on the 
> boundary, which matched exactly the node from the next town -- but was a 
> distinct node.  So the map *looked* perfect.  But you could not route 
> across boundaries.  People hand-fixed the big roads and routing got 
> better but was odd, and then there was a bot edit to fix this.  (Despite 
> this trouble, it left Massachusetts in great shape because the 
> underlying road data was very high quality.) 
>
> In the garmin case, I built maps with mkgmap from geofabrik extracts of 
> states, using splitter on the union of the maps.  I ma not really clear 
> on what was wrong exactly, but it really felt like the same thing. 
>
> To avoid this, there are two key techniques.  One is to have an extended 
> polygon around the state one is cutting to, so that every way that 
> crosses the line will have at least one node on the other side of the 
> boundary. Usually nodes are frequent enough that say 500m is enough. 
>
> The second is to make sure that the process that joins things back is 
> able to see nodes with the same coordinates and merge them to be the 
> same node. 
>
> So it sounds like from your description that osmand is used to the 
> concept of having a node at a boundary and matching that itself with a 
> different node with the same coordinates on the boundary -- that came 
> from the other side.  Probably these nodes have some special code. 
>
> But if you are doing this splitting/merging into one obf, that special 
> processing should not be necessary -- because it should have been done 
> at merge time. 
>
> Probably if you fix that, you will get routing ok. 
>

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