On Jan 6, 2008 1:49 PM, Steve Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Thanks for sending these comments on. > > > - no poi nor city index > > That's right, and I am working on on adding cities at the moment. I'm not > sure how long it will take or what it takes to make them searchable, but it > seems to be possible with what is publicly known about the format. > > > - severely jagged lines (i know it comes from your compiler...), I had > > a go at the osm compiler; it's fast! > > Which version did you use to create the map? If was 388, then you find that > that > the latest version (506 or above) is very much better in that respect. > > > - why a transparent map? sorry-osm compiler. on some units you can't > > turn off the base map so your map will interfere with garmins base > > map. > > It is not intentionally transparent, and indeed is not transparent on my > GPSr. I'll try adding background polygons to the main maps, some units may > need them. > > > - size of 3013 is too high for older garmin units, they won't be > > able to redraw fast enough > > It might be possible to make this configurable to some extent. However > mkgmap does not have one 'size' - the areas vary in size according to how > much detail there is on them and so looking at the largest size is > deceptive. On the other hand the newer version of mkgmap is better able > keep the divisions smaller where there are large elements, so it may be > better here too. > > > - automate installation process to GPS unit. > > This is outside the scope of mkgmap, although I would be happy to include > or publicize solutions developed by others. > > ..Steve >
For that last point, I think the new version of sendmap (www.cgpsmapper.com) can create self-contained exe files which will download the map set to an attached GPS. Karl _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
