Re: [mkgmap-dev] [index] Automatic location completion

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Miller
I think this is caused by addr: tags that don't use the same spelling like the boundary multipolygons. Do you know about any similar name detection algorithm? So something like a sounds-like(String cityname) function? This would be necessary to fix that. I've used the soundex algorithm for

Re: [mkgmap-dev] dropping place:village, hamlet, suburb in city search

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Boensch
Am 19.02.2011 07:08, schrieb maning sambale: The idea is to declutter the city search of these minor places and just the actual city/town will be used to index streets and cities. There would be a disadvantage: I assume the assignment of streets to cities works by searching the nearest

[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1876: Only apply merge lines at lower resolutions.

2011-03-02 Thread svn commit
Version 1876 was commited by steve on 2011-03-02 09:42:19 + (Wed, 02 Mar 2011) Only apply merge lines at lower resolutions. merge-lines is as discussed quite problematic, because it happens after the routing notes are placed, and therefore causes some problems. The closer you zoom in,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Global index branch

2011-03-02 Thread Minko
Found another bug in mkgmap-r1875. If I search for adresses on a Dakota, and skipping the place name (because often streets are assigned to the wrong place) and enter the streetname, the street is found but it points to a place in the Atlantic Ocean south of Ghana (lat0, lon0).

[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1877: Allow different smoothing parameters for polygons and lines.

2011-03-02 Thread svn commit
Version 1877 was commited by steve on 2011-03-02 11:17:38 + (Wed, 02 Mar 2011) Allow different smoothing parameters for polygons and lines. It applies the DP filter against polygons with a different agressiveness than for lines. This is really useful because strong DP filter against

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Sensible resolutions - (or patch 5)

2011-03-02 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Minko wrote: Negative consequence is that on Mapsource most of the forest disappears too soon, when zooming out. How hard would it be to merge nearby polygons on wider zoom levels? Marko ___ mkgmap-dev

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Sensible resolutions - (or patch 5)

2011-03-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 02.03.2011 13:53, Marko Mäkelä wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Minko wrote: Negative consequence is that on Mapsource most of the forest disappears too soon, when zooming out. How hard would it be to merge nearby polygons on wider zoom levels? It would not work I think.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1877: Allow different smoothing parameters for polygons and lines.

2011-03-02 Thread Minko
Where can I find the help file? ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1877: Allow different smoothing parameters for polygons and lines.

2011-03-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 02.03.2011 14:11, Minko wrote: Where can I find the help file? help/en/options or showing it on commandline (see mkgmap on osm wiki). ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent crashes when searching on device

2011-03-02 Thread Paul
So could people confirm that when they see crashes they are not installing via mapsource, and what GPS device they are using? ..Steve ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Include the following patches into trunk -- Patch4 - decrease douglas peucker error

2011-03-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
Okay I've done some comparisons between the two approximations. For polygons the old version is much better because the patched version creates bad artifacts. For streets at resolution 23 (if used) to 21 I prefer it too. At resolution 20 I am indifferent and cannot really decide what is

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent crashes when searching on device

2011-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
On Wed, Mar 02, Felix Hartmann wrote: 1. If you have this error, please also check if link-pois-to-ways switch was used. According to a post here: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=146242#p146242 the address search breaks down on Oregon once --link-pois-to-ways is used. It's

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Inundated tile with no coastline

2011-03-02 Thread Nakor
On 3/1/2011 3:38 PM, Nakor wrote: Hello, I have a tile with no coastline that shows up inundated. How can this be? How can I fix it? The tile is split us_midwest from geofabrick with: 4162: 2183168,239616 to 2215936,280576 # : 46.845703,5.141602 to 47.548828,6.020508

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [index] Automatic location completion

2011-03-02 Thread WanMil
Am 02.03.2011 04:52, schrieb Scott Crosby: This boundary is open by the coast side, as many others (¿all?) in Spain. Something similar to the close-gaps in the sea generation could do the trick. That's not a nice job to do... We might continue the boundaries along coastlines. This would be a

[mkgmap-dev] Countries issues

2011-03-02 Thread Nakor
Hello, I built a map using us_midwest extract from Geofabrik and have 5 countries listed in the country list on my Etrex Vista: Country Israel Mongolia Ukraine United States Country seems to be when there is no info and I am fine with that. US is OK but I do not understand the other

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Countries issues

2011-03-02 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I built a map using us_midwest extract from Geofabrik and have 5 countries listed in the country list on my Etrex Vista: Country Israel Mongolia Ukraine United States Country seems to be when there is no info and I am fine with that. US is OK but I

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Sensible resolutions - (or patch 5)

2011-03-02 Thread Johann Gail
Am 02.03.2011 14:03, schrieb Felix Hartmann: On 02.03.2011 13:53, Marko Mäkelä wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Minko wrote: Negative consequence is that on Mapsource most of the forest disappears too soon, when zooming out. How hard would it be to merge nearby polygons on

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent crashes when searching on device

2011-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
On Wed, Mar 02, Felix Hartmann wrote: 1. If you have this error, please also check if link-pois-to-ways switch was used. According to a post here: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=146242#p146242 the address search breaks down on Oregon once --link-pois-to-ways is used.

[mkgmap-dev] maps with diacritic symbols

2011-03-02 Thread Rich
hi. i'm terribly sorry if this is a silly question, but i've searched asked around, but so far - failed to solve the problem. i'm trying to generate maps for garmin etrex vista hcx that would contain entities with diacritic symbols (more specifically, map of latvia). i've tried specifying

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Include the following patches into trunk -- Patch4 - decrease douglas peucker error

2011-03-02 Thread Johann Gail
Okay I've done some comparisons between the two approximations. For polygons the old version is much better because the patched version creates bad artifacts. For streets at resolution 23 (if used) to 21 I prefer it too. At resolution 20 I am indifferent and cannot really decide what is

Re: [mkgmap-dev] maps with diacritic symbols

2011-03-02 Thread Johann Gail
while i'm here, i also tried lowercase option - it mostly worked except for labels on roads where all lowercase symbols seemed to be replaced by underscores. is that something that can be improved with mkgmap, or is it a quirk of the garmin device ? Most Garmin units cannot display rotated

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent crashes when searching on device

2011-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
On Wed, Mar 02, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, Steve Ratcliffe wrote: So could people confirm that when they see crashes they are not installing via mapsource, and what GPS device they are using? Yes, I'm not installing via mapsource, but copy the gmapsupp.img file directly to

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Countries issues

2011-03-02 Thread Nakor
Thanks for the very specific examples, it should be easy to track down from them. I'm on a train at the moment, but my initial guess is that regionOffset in LocatorConfig should be set. But there must be more to it than that. ___ mkgmap-dev

[mkgmap-dev] Splitter hangs when processing pbf with 1 thread only

2011-03-02 Thread RNDr. Frantisek Mantlik
When processing pbf file with splitter on single processor computer, processing never finishes. If my guess is correct, the problem is in the endMap function of the SplitProcessor class. Process hangs on line 176 because of blocking of the toProcess queue. The queue is not processed with the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent crashes when searching on device

2011-03-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 02.03.2011 21:29, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, Steve Ratcliffe wrote: So could people confirm that when they see crashes they are not installing via mapsource, and what GPS device they are using? Yes, I'm not installing via mapsource, but

[mkgmap-dev] Problems with latest splitter versions

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Prinzing
Hi, I am getting the splitter from svn, compiling and running it unter Windows XP SP3 using JDK 1.6.0_25. There are 2 problems if I am using a splitter version newer than r161 (tryed until r167 so far). 1.) germany.osm.pbf from geofabrik cannot be split

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Include the following patches into trunk -- Patch4 - decrease douglas peucker error

2011-03-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 02.03.2011 20:54, Johann Gail wrote: Okay I've done some comparisons between the two approximations. For polygons the old version is much better because the patched version creates bad artifacts. For streets at resolution 23 (if used) to 21 I prefer it too. At resolution 20 I am

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Problems with latest splitter versions

2011-03-02 Thread frmas
Le 03/03/2011 00:36, Michael Prinzing a écrit : Hi, 1.) germany.osm.pbf from geofabrik cannot be split -- MAP occupancy: 1 Elapsed time: 22m 2s Memory: Current 1484MB (1144MB used, 340MB free) Max 1484MB Elapsed time: 24m 2s Memory: