On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 22:57 -0700, NopMap wrote: > Hi! > > I have been playing around with generated sea polygons. The algorithm works > remarkably well - but I have been experiencing trouble due to inconsistent > use of natural=coastline in the data. > > There was an invalid use of natural=coastline in the planetfile, that caused > a whole tile in the Alps to be flooded. So I tracked it down, fixed it and > waited for the next planetfile. This time another tile near Berlin was > flooded. I tracked it down, noted that another mapper had already fixed it > and waited for the next planetfile. This time another tile south of Würzburg > was flooded... - you note the pattern? :-) > > For three weeks I have been unable to grab a planetfile with correct > coastline for central europe - they are broken at about the same speed we > can fix them. So even though I was able to build a really nice map a while > ago, all update attempts were broken. > > Therefore my question: Would it be possible to save the generated sea > polygons to disk in osm format so an intact set of polygons can be re-used > with future osm data? That way it could be ensured that future updates will > have the same, correct sea polygons and not be randomly broken by temporary > inconsistencies in the osm data. > > Storing the image files and using them as a seperate map layer is not a > solution as older Garmin devices are really cumbersome with layers or cannot > handle multiple layers at all - and the map is for an older device. > > Any ideas? > > Nop
Hi, I am not sure this question was answered completely, so I scrolled back to the original post. I recall on reading the osmosis wiki that it can merge OSM files. osmosis --rx 1.osm --rx 2.osm --merge --wx merged.osm Have you tried this? Apologies if this was already understood. Garvan _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
