Re: [mkgmap-dev] Did anyone realize cGPSmapper speaks Garmin NT?

2011-04-26 Thread Dermot McNally
On 26 April 2011 18:08, WanMil wmgc...@web.de wrote: What's the difference between 'old' Garmin format and NT format? Is it that NT maps are using the GMP subformat to group tiles into larger packages? Or are there any other specifics? The word on the street is that newer features like speed

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Did anyone realize cGPSmapper speaks Garmin NT?

2011-04-26 Thread Dermot McNally
On 26 April 2011 18:21, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com wrote: Basically no additional features require NT. (not even 3d buildings or lanes or real junction view and so on). I think 1 or 2 special things need NT format though. Ah, I should have waited a minute before pressing send. Do

Re: [mkgmap-dev] junction=roundabout

2011-04-23 Thread Dermot McNally
On 23 April 2011 16:41, Minko ligfiet...@online.nl wrote: a) because it is part of that roundabout. See Yes, I see now, that alone makes it all make sense. And it also means that the oneway=no suggestions of others won't work either. The best I can come up with is to have separate ways for the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address search issues

2011-03-30 Thread Dermot McNally
It looks like we may not be out of the woods yet on this one - with the latest patch, trying to build a map of Ireland (from the Geofabrik extract) fails, where it had succeeded before. Single tile, no splitting: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 36 at

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

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot McNally
It's amusing and not particularly surprising how, as soon as we have searchable maps, we discover the importance of having better addressing information about locations. So far a lot of a fundamental principles have been mentioned: * That using is_in information is easy, but not satisfactory,

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

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot McNally
On 16 February 2011 14:40, Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net wrote: So instead of writing is_in tags, write the actual data as relations? One relation per street,  one relation per city, etc., with all streets as members in the corresponding city relation? I wasn't thinking of trying

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting mkgmap generated maps to Mac format (was Index branch - success!)

2011-02-15 Thread Dermot McNally
I'm also having some problems with getting a map of mine into BaseCamp for MacOS. My source is a self-generated map made from ireland.osm (Geofabrik) with the latest index branch snapshot. I had to persevere before I managed to get the command line version of gmapibuilder from:

[mkgmap-dev] Missing icons when using TYP file

2010-11-10 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi, For a while I've been using my own TYP file, customised from the one maintained by Computerteddy. In theory I have changed very little in the file - some road colours, and a few translations from German and American into English :) I've also changed the Family ID to 333 because that's what

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Missing icons when using TYP file

2010-11-10 Thread Dermot McNally
2010/11/10 Carlos Dávila cdavi...@orangecorreo.es: Did you check the match between the bus_stop code in the TYP file and the one you have defined in your points style file? Not so far, since I had not overridden the default (perhaps there isn't one), but I will do so for this tag as a test.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Missing icons when using TYP file

2010-11-10 Thread Dermot McNally
2010/11/10 Carlos Dávila cdavi...@orangecorreo.es: Did you check the match between the bus_stop code in the TYP file and the one you have defined in your points style file? OK, I've done this now. In short, the default styles map bus_stop to 0x2f subtype 17 where only 0x2f subtype 08 (by

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Display motorway exits name correctly

2010-09-03 Thread Dermot McNally
2010/9/3 Carlos Dávila cdavi...@orangecorreo.es: Motorway exits tagged as the example below are rendered by mapnik [1] with a line break instead of ; as they appear in the traffic signals [2]. Is there a way to get the same with the mkgmap styles? Currently they are rendered in a single line

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Display motorway exits name correctly

2010-09-03 Thread Dermot McNally
2010/9/3 Carlos Dávila cdavi...@orangecorreo.es: exit_to is a recently (June 2010) introduced tag for motorway_junctions and I didn't know it. I'm afraid most people have tagged motorway_junction name with what now is intended to go in exit_to tag, so there will be some confusion on it for

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Cannot generate map with --index

2010-08-16 Thread Dermot McNally
OK - blowing away my checked out code and starting again fixed the problem. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Dermot -- -- Iren sind menschlich ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Cannot generate map with --index

2010-08-14 Thread Dermot McNally
On 14 August 2010 09:48, Johann Gail johann.g...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, that might help. The error java.lang.IllegalAccessError points to a problem with the compiled code, not with the input osm data. Possibly there are some problems with your java runtime? I'll try it. Java is the normal MacOS

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Cannot generate map with --index

2010-08-13 Thread Dermot McNally
On 12 August 2010 22:21, Steve Ratcliffe st...@parabola.me.uk wrote: I believe that you need to recompile mkgmap from scratch, do 'ant rebuild'. I did that, to no effect. Though in the spirit of your suggestion, I could blow away my code and check out from scratch, if you think that might help.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Cannot generate map with --index

2010-08-13 Thread Dermot McNally
On 12 August 2010 20:37, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@googlemail.com wrote: Might be good if that data were found... Maybe it's time to start splitting the file until I find the culprit. That's how I found a piece of broken coastline that was causing trouble before. Dermot --

[mkgmap-dev] Cannot generate map with --index

2010-08-12 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi, For a while I've been out of the habit of adding --index to my command line because I don't use Mapsource to put maps on my devices. However, I wanted to do some experiments and find that I can't make it work with the following command line: java -Xms2g -Xmx2g

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Bicycle routing improvements (reverting breakage from r1431)

2010-08-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 10 August 2010 16:27, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@googlemail.com wrote: to be routed on roads without much traffic. As long as there is no consensus worldwide whether or not cyclists by default are allowed on trunk roads, I wouldn't add them (and even then it probably makes not much

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Turn restriction for highway=motorway[_link]

2010-08-09 Thread Dermot McNally
On 9 August 2010 05:56, Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi wrote: I think that it has to be done on a case-by-case basis. If there is a lesser road nearby, then the default (bicycle=no) is OK. If there is no other practical choice or there is only light traffic on the road, then bicycle=yes

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Turn restriction for highway=motorway[_link]

2010-08-08 Thread Dermot McNally
On 8 August 2010 17:41, Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi wrote: shoulders) but the only choice in the area. I believe that the default style (correctly) does add bicycle=no to highway=trunk. When I get If this is so, then the default should be changed. The fact that various countries have

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Warning references bad object ID

2010-06-14 Thread Dermot McNally
On 13 June 2010 21:05, Johann Gail johann.g...@gmx.de wrote: So I think the upper bit is used for somthing. If I mask it out I will get 121B and this will be 4635 in decimal. Could this be the faulty relation? Hi, There's no sign of this number being the relation in question. In addition, I

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Warning references bad object ID

2010-06-14 Thread Dermot McNally
On 14 June 2010 06:34, Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi wrote: The high-order bit is set on objects generated by the multipolygon processor. I guess that the low-order bits are just a running number (count of generated objects). Are there any MultiPolygon messages before that one? No,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Warning references bad object ID

2010-06-14 Thread Dermot McNally
On 14 June 2010 18:50, WanMil wmgc...@web.de wrote: the multipolygon with id 4611686018427393761 is an artificial polygon created by the --generate-sea=multipolygon option. There is definitely no chance for the multipolygon code to get the original object ID. This must be fixed in

[mkgmap-dev] Warning references bad object ID

2010-06-13 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi folks, I periodically generate a map of Ireland from the Geofabrik ireland.osm extract. With warnings enabled, I get the following: 2010/06/13 20:39:27 WARNING (MultiPolygonRelation): ireland.osm: Multipolygon http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/4611686018427389788 contains errors.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] mdr address index with gmapsupp and macroadtrip installers

2009-12-04 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/11/30 Clifford Nolan clifford.no...@ul.ie: Most of the cities in Ireland are tagged as villages or hamlets, etc and we do not have postcodes outside Dublin city. To be precise, we don't even have postcodes in Dublin city, but postal districts that don't map well do what a Garmin device

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v5] - drive on left + roundabout direction checking

2009-10-27 Thread Dermot McNally
I love the roundabout warnings and, with their help, I've been able to fix all the broken roundabouts in Ireland that they have identified. In the process, though, I've spotted a particular kind of false positive that I suspect we can avoid. Consider this way:

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v5] - drive on left + roundabout direction checking

2009-10-27 Thread Dermot McNally
Hi Mark, 2009/10/27 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: misc roundabout related breakage in the GB data). So far, my solution in this situation is just to partition one of the fake flares so that it will no longer trigger a warning. Yup, mine too. Your suggestion to avoid the warning is probably

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v5] - drive on left + roundabout direction checking

2009-10-27 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/10/28 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: Unfortunately, obtaining the roundabout's diameter is rather a lot of work (for me and the computer!) as the original ways that make up the roundabout are no longer at hand. It probably could be done but I don't think it's really worth it. I shall go

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Reduce road class/speed when road is narrow

2009-10-13 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/10/13 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: It probably has to cope with widths that have either m or ft suffix (I have also seen widths in the UK as 6'6 !). Can the style file hack that? This, of course, is why units really suck in fields that could so easily be strictly numeric... Dermot --

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Reduce road class/speed when road is narrow

2009-10-13 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/10/13 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: The OSM wiki says: Describes the width of a way or other map feature. The unit is meters unless otherwise specified. Why didn't they say the unit is meters and leave it at that. Completely mad. Many such keys did indeed in the past indicate that

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v5] - drive on left + roundabout direction checking

2009-10-03 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/10/3 Paul n...@pointdee.co.uk: Yup. That did it. As the logging.properties in resources was the only file of that name I just presumed it was the one to use That finally worked for me too. That revealed to me that there were in fact about 15 wrong-way roundabouts in Ireland. I'm happy to

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

2009-09-29 Thread Dermot McNally
Since the sea polygons are being discussed... With the merge back into trunk, should I expect that the support there is identical to that on the multipolygon branch? I ask because there appear to be remaining differences. My test data is the Geofabrik Ireland extract. This is processed correctly

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] - drive on left + roundabout direction checking

2009-09-27 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/9/27 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: Also, it now issues a warning for each roundabout it finds that appears to go in the wrong direction. I just got 720 warnings when I processed the GB map so either there is a problem with the code or there is a lot of duff roundabouts. I checked a

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Splitting at country borders?

2009-09-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/9/20 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: but why split along the border?  if you for example load bavaria-nord, bavaria-south+austria-northwest, austria-southwest-italy-nord is there any disadvantage? all borders are open in most of europe.why reintroduce them everywhere. For every

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Splitting at country borders?

2009-09-20 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/9/20 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com: first someone needs to figure out how search works at all. it may not even use country specified in a img tile. While we should certainly keep an open mind, it's too convenient that Garmin choose to break all their maps at national borders too.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] multipolygon support?

2009-09-12 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/9/12 Steve Ratcliffe st...@parabola.me.uk: I think that has had some reasonable testing so I shall merge the multipolygon fixes to trunk. Oh goody. Isn't the sea polygon support on that branch too? Will they be merged too? Dermot -- -- Iren sind

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Sea Polygons and java 1.6

2009-08-22 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/8/22 Steve Ratcliffe st...@parabola.me.uk: Agreed, so I am especially looking for Mac users to give advice and/or offer to help.  In particular SoyLatte is often suggested, but this requires that you be a research licensee. The openJDK release from the same source has recently appeared

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v3] sea polygons

2009-08-08 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/8/8 Christian Gawron christian.gaw...@gmx.de: Here is an improved version of the sea polygon patch which also handles shorelines intersecting the boundary of the map (set by the bounds element). I have tested it with Ireland - there are still some islands which are flooded, so the patch

Re: [mkgmap-dev] phone number bug?

2009-08-04 Thread Dermot McNally
FWIW, I think this problem is model-specific. My Nuvi 250 can't do Bluetooth, but it can display addresses and phone numbers and it formats them perfectly for me. Cliff's device seems to dislike the same data from the same img file, though. Dermot 2009/8/4 Bernhard Heibler bernh...@heibler.de:

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1119: Copies address data to the POIs created when using the --add-pois-to-areas option.

2009-08-04 Thread Dermot McNally
Hearty thanks for committing this, Steve. Dermot 2009/8/4 svn commit s...@mkgmap.org.uk: Version 1119 was commited by steve on 2009-08-04 14:20:29 +0100 (Tue, 04 Aug 2009) Copies address data to the POIs created when using the  --add-pois-to-areas option. - Clinton Gladstone

[mkgmap-dev] Apparent bug: POIs from areas

2009-08-03 Thread Dermot McNally
Folks, By accident, I've noticed that when areas are converted to POIs, address and phone number information (and maybe other stuff) does not seem to be preserved. For instance, see here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4482136 The maps I create can display address and phone number for

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] sea polygons

2009-08-02 Thread Dermot McNally
This exhausted the 2G of heap space I had allocated when I tried it on a map of Ireland. Are there known practical limits I should try to stay within? Dermot 2009/8/1 Christian Gawron christian.gaw...@gmx.de: Hi, the attached patch adds a sea polygon  (based on the bounding box of the map)

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v2] sea polygons

2009-08-02 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/8/2 Christian Gawron christian.gaw...@gmx.de: I can reproduce this problem and will have a look at it. My first guess is that either the shoreline is not closed or that there is still a problem with the multipolygon code. Well, the coastline has been stable for a long time, so it

Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] - extend --replace-short-arcs option to take min arc length

2009-06-06 Thread Dermot McNally
2009/6/6 Mark Burton ma...@ordern.com: If you want to have a routable map for bicycles why not just remove all the oneway tags? Because cyclists are required to obey oneway restrictions. Dermot -- -- Iren sind menschlich