On Wednesday, 26. November 2008 17:43:49 Carsten Schwede wrote: > Hi, > > Oliver Eichler schrieb: > > noo, that isn't the night design :). I used > > http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi > > to verify. > > Ahhh, It is noch so heavy colored as I see on the GPS.
yes :) the colors are quite loud. > > > But as I got your attention, now, I would like to tell you a few hints > > on how to optimize the OSM maps as they are a real PITA for drawing and > > to look at. > > I cannot really optimize the creation of the maps. This job does the > tool mkgmap. Also the creation of the basemap. Ah, I always thought you _are_ Mr mkgmap. (But looking at the homepage it seems to be a Steve) > > A few words to the tilesize: mkgmap is not able to create Garmin tiles > if the source file is too big. I dont know why, but this is the cause > for the tilesize of 1°x1°. (Maybe a memory problem of Java, I cannot > give Java more memory.) Oh that is really bad. How much memory does it eat? It can't be too much for tiles around 100KB to 2MB of size. Is mkgmap still developed actively? It really needs some fixing. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ QLandkarte-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkarte-users
