[talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-02-03 Thread John Kitchener
Seems Openmtbmap has recently got 'sea polygons' organized. :) Here is a Mapsource Noosa view. It's not 100% for the entire coastline, but it's pretty damn good. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6421/noosamtb.jpg Regards John k ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-02-03 Thread Sean Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not only have they created sea polygons but they have turned the land into polygons also. The only way to do it. John Kitchener wrote: Seems Openmtbmap has recently got 'sea polygons' organized. :) Here is a Mapsource Noosa view. It's not 100%

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-29 Thread Matt White
I sorted the maps today - stoopid downloads not working, and I obviously can't write a decent batch script to save my life Would have fixed it earlier, but not at work to do so - Australia Day for me generally results in a hangover, as it's also my birthday Matt John Kitchener wrote:

[talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Kitchener
Matt wrote: Coastlines (and the inverse islands issues) have been ongoing for ages for the Mkgmap produced Garmin files. There's a --generate-sea switch for Mkgmap that sometimes works fine, other times, not so good. It's hit and miss enough that I've never enabled it for the maps I generate.

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Smith
This came up on the talk list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047660.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: This came up on the talk list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047660.html Thanks John. Later today I hope to get a chance to try some of those ideas out. I'll post back any findings. John H ___

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: Later today I hope to get a chance to try some of those ideas out. I'll post back any findings. OK, I'm the first to admit I'm operating outside my knowledge comfort zone here. But I've tried adding: --generate-sea=polygons,no-sea-sectors,close-gaps=2000 to the mkgmap

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Smith
On 29 January 2010 14:18, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: as the first two lines of the mkgmap polygons style file. There's no improvement in the rendering of the ocean. Read the thread I posted before, you have to tweak other things I think.

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-27 Thread Matt White
Coastlines (and the inverse islands issues) have been onging for ages for the mkgmap produced garmin files. There's a --generate-sea switch for mkgmap that sometimes works fine, other times, not so good. It's hit and miss enough that I've mever enabled it for the maps I generate Problem seems

[talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Kitchener
Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2718/oregon300.jpg Cheers John k ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Henderson
John Kitchener wrote: Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2718/oregon300.jpg Using a different mkgmap style file and TYP file presumably to generate the gmapsupp.img file. They're highly configurable. I've started experimenting with them for the

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Smith
How is the garmin util converting from osm2garmin format? There is shape files which are error checkef before mapnik renders tiles... On 1/27/10, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: John Kitchener wrote: Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300