Hi Michael,

The problem regarding the change between 0x4b and 0x0b was
in mkgmap routines that read the img file, none of them would 
explain what you see. 
Maybe Mapsource makes a similar error?

Gerd

> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:50:42 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] Wrong "Object Class" displayed in Mapsource
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am creating my own map with mkgmap and am using it on an eTrex Vista 
> HCx and with Mapsource.
> 
> In Mapsource, when the mouse pointer is moved over an object (like a 
> road, a building or another POI) and the right mouse button is pressed, 
> a context menu appears listing anything under the pointer.
> 
> If there is no other polygon (like forest, residential, ...) than the 
> "empty" background under the mouse pointer, Mapsource lists the 
> background as "Hospital". Please see
> http://www.mipri.de/dl/background.png for an example.
> "Kartenmerkmal - Straße" is correct, but "Krankenhaus - Unbekanntes 
> Gebiet" ("Hospital - Unknown area") is not.
> 
> In my TYP file I am using 0x4b for the background, while my style (like 
> the default style) is assigning 0x0b to hospitals. I don't know if there 
> is any relation, but some days ago Gerd wrote:
> 
>  > the code changed the background type 0x4b to 0x0b. I find this
>  > also in the trunk version and in the current code of the display
>  > tool, so I am not sure why this happens.
> 
> Could it have to do with this?
> 
> 
> There are other cases where the labels in Mapsource are wrong:
> 
> If I am putting the mouse over a "real" hospital, the building gets 
> listed as "Marine", see http://www.mipri.de/dl/hospital.png. In this 
> case "Krankenhaus - Chirurgische Klinik" is correct,
> "Marine - Chrirurgische Klinik" is not.
> 
> Something similar happens with forests, but only if there is no "wood" 
> key defined. In this case, they are listed as "Autoservices - Wald" 
> ("Car repair - Forest") as in http://www.mipri.de/dl/wood.png.
> 
> The examples were taken near the University of Ulm, Germany, but it 
> could be elsewhere. The mouse pointer did not get captured in my 
> screenshots, it was at the position in the upper left corner of the 
> popup menu.
> 
> These wrong labels seem to appear only in Mapsource, I did not see them 
> on my GPS yet.
> 
> Any ideas what could be going wrong here?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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