Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1882: MapSource installer improvements

2011-03-07 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
thanks, it works now with 1885. I had to adapt my script, because the "_OV" was taken from the nsis name. Map are now uninstall-able from add/remove programs - cool! BennieD Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal's c

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1882: MapSource installer improvements

2011-03-06 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, do we still use -nsis to activate the creation of the installer? I get these error messages, and no installer: Could not find the installer template. Could not find the license template. BennieD Sc

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address & city country name assignment.

2011-02-15 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, I don't understand which tags are used to find the country (and other address data) for a street, or city to use in address search. In my build of Southern Africa, the streets around Nelspruit gets assigned country Botswana, although it is in South Africa, and close to a place= city node that

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address search and index.

2011-02-14 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
What about enabling the template.args file or options to manually override a tile's country-name? I get another problem that is slightly related: In a tile that is 90 % country A, but contains the capital of country B, the country name of the tile becomes Country B in the address search. If I can

Re: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap index rev. 1809

2011-02-03 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
1809: In Mapsource: *street search with city works*, while it did not before. send to device don't crash but fail with error MDR_TRIM_ADDR.CXX 3020 extracted from a lot more info that I think is about the device size of _OV_mdr.img = 3724 kb 1820: In Mapsource:

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Improved street search in index branch

2011-01-13 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi Steve, you are doing a great job! I tested the latest index branch 1781 with Latin1 & codepage 1252, compiled a map of Soutern Africa in 2 tiles On mapsource I see no difference. Streets are searchable under address search as it was before with index -- that is, as long as you don't fill i

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Multiple Relations and Admin levels

2010-08-11 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>From: Markus [mailto:marku...@bigpond.com] >Sent: 10 August 2010 10:40 >To: 'Development list for mkgmap' >Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Multiple Relations and Admin levels >I wonder if there is a link somewhere to explain how to apply patches. Markus, I don't claim to be an expert. In fact I wishe

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Suugestion for default style: 660c forisland instead of 650c

2010-07-21 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
According to Wikipedia: Gut (topography), relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger waterways Never heard it used however?! BennieD # Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal's comprehensive email content securi

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Routing

2010-07-14 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
On some units address search seems to work if --index is used. I think I can recall someone reporting successful address search, And I've seen my own maps address search working on an e-trex, But that was long ago when I knew someone with an e-trex willing to try my map;) On my Nuvi 200W and Garmi

[mkgmap-dev] road-name-pois

2010-06-22 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
More info: I now got --road-name-pois to work again, by removing --generate-sea:extend-sea-sectors from my options Does it make sense that --generate-sea:extend-sea-sectors could influence --road-name-pois? What else can I do to try and narrow down to the origin of the problem. Maybe

Re: [mkgmap-dev] road-name-pois

2010-06-21 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>> Can someone please confirm whether --road-name-pois works on MkGMap >> 1652, so I can narrow the focus of my fault finding. >It works for me: --road-name-pois=0x640a and --road-name-pois Thanks Carlos, I'll change my strategy & search my method for the error This e-mail is subject to the Sapp

[mkgmap-dev] road-name-pois

2010-06-21 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Suddenly using the --road-name-pois option breaks my map. I turned it off to see if it maybe is the cause of the fist letter only display on mobile XT, which it is not. When I turned it back on it started breaking my maps. Previous version 1602 (I have not returned to that yet to validate that it

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Garmin mobile XT & labels

2010-06-18 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
From: Marko Mäkelä >I thought that mkgmap converts all labels to upper case by default. >There is an option for overriding that I think you're right. On nuvi everything is uppercase. So it looks like XT only displays the first letter of every word. e.g. Villa Barcelona Cafe is displayed as V B C

[mkgmap-dev] Garmin mobile XT & labels

2010-06-17 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
On Garmin Mobile XT only the upper case letters of labels are displayed. Both on the map and in the search functions. Has anyone else experienced this anywhere? The same map works fine on Nuvi200W. Is there a simple way to upper case all the labels in the OSM file, to try and work around? Or is the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Suppress POI names displayed on device

2010-03-24 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Charlie, Thanks for your advice Charlie> You can use extended labels in your TYP file to hide any labelling. Charlie> In TYPViewer, once you have opened the TYP: Charlie> - click on the POI in question and edit it ("modifier") Charlie> - set "label amelioré" to "oui" (i.e. extended labels to "y

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Suppress POI names displayed on device

2010-03-23 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, Is there a way to suppress the names of POIs displayed on the device screen, without affecting the routing instruction names and the search entity names. I thought I remembered a discussion around this, but can only find the diplay_name discussions that refers to names displayed in routing inst

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1491: The NSIS install builder can now

2010-01-27 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
B> For instance B> java -ea -Dlog.config=Log.txt -Xmx1000m -jar path\to\mkgmap.jar B> path\to\map.osm path\to\file.typ Ah, it seems the TYP file name can not contain a path, but only the name of the typfile i.e. java -ea -Dlog.config=Log.txt -Xmx1000m -jar path\to\mkgmap.jar path\to\map.osm

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1491: The NSIS install builder can now

2010-01-27 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
G> How do you tell mkgmap to include the TYP file in the NSIS script? I G> think I tried the obvious, but I must be missing something simple. For G> now I need to edit the install script by hand. Index files are working G> as expected. G> G> Garvan Hi Garvan, I am not an expert, but your que

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Baltic map looking good

2009-12-30 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
MB>I'm really pleased how well the Baltic marine map has come along It does look good. WELL DONE. Would you share your TYP file & style with us. Or is it proprietary. No objection if it is. You did all the work. All the same I like the look and want to try it on my map. Further: I have not tried t

Re: [mkgmap-dev] More Dog patches

2009-11-17 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi Marko, >I had a look at your patch. Thanks for taking the time >I think that the character encoding should >be ASCII or UTF-8. The apparent encoding of your patch is Microsoft >Code Page 1252.> Ahh, that won't do- I want to help improve mkgmap, not hamper it! I'll try to find out what tha

[mkgmap-dev] More Dog patches

2009-11-16 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, Unfortunately I miss-spelled "doc" in the previous eMail - suppose its done now :-( I don't know if any one besides Carlos has looked at my previous patches for DOC. I attach another patch for README., including some suggestions by Carlos. Since the previous patches was not installed yet

[mkgmap-dev] More Dog patches

2009-11-13 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Steve, Attached 2 patches for mkgmap-r1381\doc\ READMEjava.patch READMEinstalling.patch If you would be so kind to commit it? Please? BTW I see a heading like Index: doc/README.java on the patches of others. Is it hand edited in, or do you use different DiffUtils tha

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Help Options patch

2009-11-10 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
rg.uk Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Help Options patch Quoting "Du Plessis, Bennie" : > > Steve, > > Is the zipped forum archives broken, or just avaialable to a select > few? > > I know it was discussed earlier, but I think you were away at the time? > > I coul

[mkgmap-dev] Help Options patch

2009-11-09 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Here is some changes to the help - options documentation. If it is OK will someone (I suppose Steve / Mark) please commit it? It is my first patch, so please advice where necessary Groete BennieD Steve, Is the zipped forum archives broken, or just avaialable to a select few? I know it wa

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Style work-around to longer routing

2009-11-08 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
-Original Message- From: Clinton Gladstone [mailto:clinton.gladst...@googlemail.com] Sent: 06 November 2009 14:56 PM To: Development list for mkgmap Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] indexing stuff On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Du Plessis, Bennie wrote: > BTW I found a style f

[mkgmap-dev] List Archive

2009-10-16 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Marko / Chris Have you been able to open the list archive yet? I still get redirected to http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/index.html When I click on http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2009q4.txt.gz Am I doing something wrong? BennieD The opinions contained in this message ar

Re: [mkgmap-dev] List Archive

2009-10-13 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>> Hi, >> >> are the Links to the list archives (gzip'd text) on >> >> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/ >> >> broken? They don't work for me >> >> Chris >> >> >Could not confirm. For me they work fine... I confirm For me too the link http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Sending multiple maps to gps

2009-10-07 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
> > Hi > >>> In my case both maps are shown as "family name" "[1] OSM street map" >>> although they were built with different parameters >>> Cheers >>> Carlos >> >> Have you tried using sendmap instead (to create the single >> gmapsupp.img file)? > > This has come up a lot recently, and we shoul

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Memory problems since 1245

2009-10-07 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>From: Carlos Dávila [mailto:cdavi...@jemila.jazztel.es] >...sea map. When I zoom or pan the map in overlapped areas I can see the >sea just for a second until regular map is drawn on top. Has anyone >succeeded with this method? > >In my case both maps are shown as "family name" "[1] OSM street m

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [mkgmap-svn] Commit: r1261: Implement the reverseindex.

2009-10-06 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, By doing the img in one go and the -index in a subsequent run, I can finaly compile my area with 1262 if I split it in 4. Mdr & Mdx gets created. I send it to mapsource succesfully, (whenever I get the Hex conv correct:-/ But I can not use it. The benefit is that family-name works, but I s

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Memory problems since 1245

2009-10-06 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Ahh, I made a mistake The reason why I could not see in mapsource what I expected is because I used the wrong input file for the one --index creation. I make SA in a one tile map, and also in a 4 tile map, to compare & play. The 4 tile version worked fine, but the 1 tile map still does not compil

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Memory problems since 1245

2009-10-06 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Steve, Thanks for your advice. >I know that sometimes --generate-sea can take a long time. Also if >you are creating a map for a country that has lots of tags on every >node, then it will take a lot more memory. This is unfortunate and I >plan to fix that problem, but it does mean that you shou

[mkgmap-dev] Memory problems since 1245

2009-10-05 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, I don't know where to post a ticket, but I'm sure you'll tell me if it's the wrong forum. Since version 1245 I had to increase the memory size in the MkGMap command line and the virtual memory of my machine to get mkGMap to work. (1245 was the last version I could get to work, but wi

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1198: Merge in the sea polygon patch from

2009-09-30 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>From: Christian Gawron >can you check if >- the cut coastline segments really extend to the tile borders I am not quite sure how to confirm this, but it is cut from an area that works fine with sea poly (therefore I asume the original coastline is not broken), by splitter with default overlap. A

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1198: Merge in the sea polygon patch from

2009-09-30 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
>Dermot McNally schreef: >> With the merge back into trunk, should I expect that the support there >> is identical to that on the multipolygon branch? [...] but >> if I process it using trunk code I get a mostly flooded map. >> >> Anybody else seeing such differences? > >Actually, I don't use the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1198: Merge in the sea polygon patch from

2009-09-29 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Tomas I used your advice and built a map of SA with sea successfully. When building SA from one tile, the sea is correct with only some islands drowned, (I download Africa from geofabrik and extract southern Africa from it with splitter because geofabrik SA cuts the coastline at the country b

[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1198: Merge in the sea polygon patch from the multipolygon branch.

2009-09-22 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Generate-sea does not work for me on Southern Africa. I use: 1)JRE 1.6 2)Source file GeoFabrik Africa 2009-09-04 extract with Southern Africa extracted from that with splitter 3)Splitter options: java -Xmx900m -jar splitter.jar^ GeoAfr.osm.bz2^ --mapid=11090906^ --max-nodes=3

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] - Reduce number of Table A entries required

2009-09-22 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Reduce number of Table A entries. Previously, Table A entries were unique for each combination of start node, end node and RoadDef. But no information from the start and end nodes goes into Table A so we can ignore the start and end nodes and all roads within a given routi