Re: [mkgmap-dev] Question on routing difference

2022-06-08 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi all, we had some discussions on the weirdness of Garmin's routing algorithm in the past. In August 2014, I described an example, and popej could give a good explanation: https://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2014q3/thread.html#21825 Beyond that, "newer" Garmin outdoor devices (ehm, m

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Contour lines with "Artefacts" near a vertical line situated at W0° 00' 00"

2022-03-11 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Gerard, you can check the elevation contour lines by opening the file generated by your tool in e.g. JOSM (my take some time when the file is large). Strange distortions are expected at the borders of the whole set of input files, but not where input files are adjacent to each other. Your descr

Re: [mkgmap-dev] emergency_access_point

2021-08-02 Thread Bernhard Hiller
point is? Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Sonntag, 1. August 2021 12:35 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] emergency_access_point Hi all, "highway=ergency_access_point" (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Demerg

[mkgmap-dev] emergency_access_point

2021-08-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi all, "highway=emergency_access_point" (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Demergency_access_point ) seems not to be included in our style: only in case of a line (instead of a point), there's an instruction: delete the highway tag. But it is a useful feature. In case of an e

Re: [mkgmap-dev] tile takes very long time to generate

2021-03-09 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Karl, some time ago, I stumbled upon a tile which took 2 hours(!) on my machine. With the "--polygon-file" option, the time could be reduced to less than 100 s. See the old message in the archive: http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2017q1/026490.html and the thread "Performance with

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Device Crash Analysis

2020-08-16 Thread Bernhard Hiller
That strange behavior may occasionally happen, I experienced that several times in the past. Updating the maps on the device typically removes it. Oddly, even updating a map of a totally different region may help... Regards, Bernhard Am 16.08.2020 um 12:14 schrieb jan meisters: I recently experi

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Road speed through urban areas

2020-07-09 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Ticker, the speed used for routing depends also on your device. For road_speed 7, I detected 112 km/h on an Oregon 600, and 132 km/h on an Oregon 400. For more details, see my old post on that topic at http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2014q3/021620.html Kind regards, Bernhard Am

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Garmin types

2020-06-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hello ael, please note that rendering (and also indexing) depends on the specific Garmin unit and its firmware. The page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types shows a list of "point of interest" and their default rendering / indexing on several device types. It also links

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Routing Issue with Garmin Edge 830

2020-05-20 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Stephan, what does happen when you change all tracktype=grade4 to grade3 or grade5? That is, put a line like tracktype=grade4 {set tracktype=grade3} (I hope I remember the syntax correctly...) in your lines file, rather near the top of the file. Regards, Bernhard Am 20.05.2020 um 11:33 schr

Re: [mkgmap-dev] change handling of railway=abandoned

2020-01-21 Thread Bernhard Hiller
ing is that a railway=abandoned without highway=* still might be used as a highway if a tag like foot=yes or bicycle=yes exists. Tickers idea should have more or less the same effect. Gerd ____ Von: Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Montag, 20. Januar 2020 19:41 An: G

Re: [mkgmap-dev] change handling of railway=abandoned

2020-01-20 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Gerd, "add access=no" is a very dangerous option. In my style, I added a rule for removing such ways completely. And it failed terribly - today, there may be public roads on previous railways. See also my post in the forum at https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66451 Kind regards,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] default style improvements

2019-01-06 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Ticker, I often travel on bike in "nowhere land", where hotels and restaurants are rare. So I think it is good to show both PoIs if a hotel contains a restaurant. Of course, it would be more relevant to know how other users of OSM Garmin maps think about this topic (I use my own style, so t

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-11-06 Thread Bernhard Hiller
ated when some else tries to follow these steps. Kind regards, Bernhard Am 31.10.2018 um 22:03 schrieb Bernhard Hiller: Hi all, currently a Java OutOfMemory exception prevents me from creating a map. I already use option --max-jobs=3 (the machine has 4 physical cores) and -Xmx5G (of 8 GB in

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-11-04 Thread Bernhard Hiller
file contains a lot of data that was written to keep ways complete. Maybe srtm2osm creates lots of very long ways ? Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Samstag, 3. November 2018 11:25 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: Re: [m

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-11-03 Thread Bernhard Hiller
guess: If you use option --add-pois-to-lines and you have a rule in the points file which processes ele to add a POI you may see something like that. Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Gerd Petermann Gesendet: Freitag, 2. November 2018 19:24 An:

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-11-02 Thread Bernhard Hiller
X_LAT_DEGREES =5; private static final int MAX_LON_DEGREES =0; in SplittableDensityArea.java and compile your own version of splitter. Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2018 22:03 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgma

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-11-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
nal int MAX_LON_DEGREES =0; in SplittableDensityArea.java and compile your own version of splitter. Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2018 22:03 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] splitter

Re: [mkgmap-dev] DEM and SRTM hgt files: size too small

2018-11-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Thorsten, viewfinderpanoramas provides files for that area too. Download cells M32 and M33 from http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/Coverage map viewfinderpanoramas_org3.htm The unzipped files all have a size of 2818 kb, and work well with mkgmap. Kind regards, Bernhard Am 01.11.2018 um 10:16

[mkgmap-dev] splitter: option for maximum tile area?

2018-10-31 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi all, currently a Java OutOfMemory exception prevents me from creating a map. I already use option --max-jobs=3 (the machine has 4 physical cores) and -Xmx5G (of 8 GB installed). Beyond OSM data, the map contains DEM and elevation contour lines. From the tiles finished and those with a new ti

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: "Cannot store node id 9223372036854775807, this value is reserved"

2018-10-29 Thread Bernhard Hiller
eading :-( Do you have an idea where this id comes from? Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2018 07:48:02 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: "Cannot store node id 922337203

Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter: "Cannot store node id 9223372036854775807, this value is reserved"

2018-10-29 Thread Bernhard Hiller
me. The following message about the sort is misleading :-( Do you have an idea where this id comes from? Gerd ________ Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2018 07:48:02 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-

[mkgmap-dev] splitter: "Cannot store node id 9223372036854775807, this value is reserved"

2018-10-28 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi all, I tried to create a map of south east asia with contourlines. DEM data are from Viewfinderpanoramas, and were processed with srtm2osm. It took 7 h to generate a 40GB *.osm file, and another 1 hour to sort the data with osmosis into a 600 MB *.pbf file. A region from 0-23N and 94-109E w

Re: [mkgmap-dev] routing between different maps

2018-06-22 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Andrzej, I doubt that it is possible. The extracts from Geofabrik overlap at the administrative borders. So a road from e.g. Germany to Poland won't end at the border, but extend a few meters (sometimes even kilometers!) into the neighboring country. And that holds true for that road in the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] DEM bug at 50°N

2018-04-12 Thread Bernhard Hiller
'll try to add support for this format now. Gerd Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. April 2018 20:40:23 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] DEM bug at 50°N According to the DEM in the map, the Rh

[mkgmap-dev] DEM bug at 50°N

2018-04-08 Thread Bernhard Hiller
According to the DEM in the map, the Rhine river some 3 km away from my home is at an elevation of some 2600 m asl. I do not live in the Swiss alps, but some 50km west of Frankfurt, just north of 50°N... The correct elevation is about 80m. Near Bingen (just south of 50°N), the Rhine is at an ele

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Error building DEM map

2018-02-28 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Carlos, I remember that mkgmap takes very long when there are some strange large tiles which are almost empty (or contain large almost empty areas). I could solve that by cutting the desired area from the input file before running splitter. I do not know if this is applicable in your situati

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Creating a map with contour lines and DEM

2018-02-15 Thread Bernhard Hiller
m.exe -step 25 -cat 500 100 25 -large and now things work. Am 13.02.2018 um 19:38 schrieb Bernhard Hiller: I was trying to create a map of Taiwan including DEM data and elevation contour lines. The DEM part was easy. But strangely, I cannot get elevation contourlines. I downloaded hgt data from Vi

[mkgmap-dev] Creating a map with contour lines and DEM

2018-02-13 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I was trying to create a map of Taiwan including DEM data and elevation contour lines. The DEM part was easy. But strangely, I cannot get elevation contourlines. I downloaded hgt data from Viewfinder Panoramas, and placed them into the cache directory of srtm2osm. I called srtm2osm in a batch

Re: [mkgmap-dev] "shop=no"

2017-08-18 Thread Bernhard Hiller
=cant https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dvacant Not sure if the default style should ignore this as well? Gerd ____ Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 19:19:01 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.u

[mkgmap-dev] "shop=no"

2017-08-16 Thread Bernhard Hiller
In the forum, there is a discussion on the enormous variety of values for some tags, see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=55541 (in Dutch). There is also a link to a list showing the different values for the "shop" tag: http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~marczoutendijk/taginfo-sho

Re: [mkgmap-dev] amenity=restaurant and search index

2017-04-27 Thread Bernhard Hiller
The index may be sometimes confusing: there are categories which sum up other categories, and that also depends on the device type. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types E.g. 0x2a04 is shown under - All Categories - Asian - Chinese on an Oregon 600, but the category "

Re: [mkgmap-dev] RAM and mdr Europa ?

2017-03-24 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Thomas, since you have 10 GB of RAM for all of the tasks running on your computer, I doubt that 9800 MB for Java/mkgmap is actually feasable. With Win 7, I put away some 1200-1500 MB for the operating system. If a process gets more memory, swapping to disk will occur, which is a slow process

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Performance with large files

2017-03-21 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I just noticed that I did not enable assertions (-ea) so I now try a variant with a max-nodes0 and -ea. Gerd ____ Von: mkgmap-dev im Auftrag von Bernhard Hiller Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. März 2017 19:46:32 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betre

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Performance with large files

2017-03-19 Thread Bernhard Hiller
- Central Europe 20 minutes mkgmap: Germany 30 minutes - Central Europe 133 minutes While splitter performed better than O(n) (more like O(sqrt(n))), mkgmap performed worse than O(n^2). Am 19.03.2017 um 12:06 schrieb Bernhard Hiller: How is mkgmap expected to behave when input files grow in size

[mkgmap-dev] Performance with large files

2017-03-19 Thread Bernhard Hiller
How is mkgmap expected to behave when input files grow in size? Is a linear inrease in calculation time - i.e. O(n) - expected, or an increase beyond linearity? E.g. when I create a map with routable lines for bicycle, mkgmap takes some 30 minutes for Germany alone (3 GB pbf file resulting in 85

[mkgmap-dev] Re-using a splitter result

2016-07-31 Thread Bernhard Hiller
From one data extract (comprising Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Belgium, Netherlands), I create 3 maps: - a routable map for car with id 4312 - a routable map for bicycle with id 4311 - a shared map with points of interest, areas, and some lines (river, railway, etc) with id 4310 Due t

[mkgmap-dev] highway-symbol for maxspeed?

2014-09-21 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I was trying to show maxspeed information on the map. In the lines file, I added highway=* & maxspeed=* {addlabel '${maxspeed}'} which replaced the name by maxspeed. Next, I looked at some examples in the default style which add ref as a label (but whose syntax I do not understand - looks more

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Routing Algorithm of Garmin

2014-08-19 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Cze´sć Andrzej, thanks for this (bad) information. Looks like the Oregon 600 (an outdoor device) uses the newer algorithm. Well, it means, I can now stop optimizing for the "correct" route, and perhaps rather try to "optimize" the calculated time for the selected route (i.e. get it closer to m

[mkgmap-dev] Routing Algorithm of Garmin

2014-08-15 Thread Bernhard Hiller
When selecting "Minimize Distance", the result conforms with the expectations: the shortest route is selected by the Garmin Oregon 600. But with "Minimize Time", things are different. It is not at all the route with the shortest time. By setting a "Via Point", I can have it calculating my prefe

Re: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap 3313 bug: POI names missing

2014-07-05 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Thanks, that did the trick. That was a change to mkgmap which made it incompatible with older styles. Strangely, the new map has 182 MB, 25 MB less than the old version. Am 05.07.2014 11:31, schrieb Bernd Weigelt: add something like this to end of 'points'. 'lines', 'polygons' | | # The finaliz

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to remove an index from an existing map

2014-07-04 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Thanks a lot for your hints. > --index is only about address search. POI search is independent of address search. Thanks for that hint. I did not know that. > it looks like it generates the "index" on the fly from the tile data. With the slow speed of the items appearing in the list, that like

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to remove an index from an existing map

2014-07-03 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Czesc Andrzej, thanks for your hints. Unfortunately, it did not work. Next, I downloaded a fresh extract from Geofabrik and created a fresh map without an index. I verified that the maps which come with the device do not have POIs (well, there are some: all of them are military or civil airpo

[mkgmap-dev] How to remove an index from an existing map

2014-07-02 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Whenever more than one map exists on an Oregon, the indices of all those maps are used for POI search reagrdless if the maps are "enabled" or not. When the areas of maps do overlap, several POIs are listed twice (or even more often depending on the number of maps). Since I use some POI codes di

[mkgmap-dev] Routing speeds on Oregon 600/400

2014-07-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Chapter 4.6.5 of the style manual shwos a table with road speeds and its corresponding "highest speeds". I created a small test map with roads of ca. 100 km length of all 5 road_types and added speed limits which translate into the 8 different road_speed codes with the current (v3310) default st

Re: [mkgmap-dev] POI index issues

2013-11-24 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Brett, an issue with the index on a Garmin device is that it requires specific codes for specific items. For a comparison of Garmin models and the use/appearance of codes, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types - In most cases, the meaning is the same for differ

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address index for multi-country map

2013-11-11 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Thanks for your hints. With the precompiled boundaries, the map of the European countries receives a functional address index. When creating a map of South-East Asia (Thailand, Malysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos), the address index does not work: no roads are found in Bangko

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address index for multi-country map

2013-11-10 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Meanwhile I did some experiments. With a fresh download from Geofabrik, I started with germany.osm.pbf without any additional modification by osmconvert. I split it, and created the map with the same parameters and style file. With the examples from Germany, I received the same results. Next,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] One node - two index entries?

2013-11-10 Thread Bernhard Hiller
also available. Also for the hotel+restaurant, two IDs are required, one in Lodging, and one in Food and Drink. Am 09.11.2013 14:42, schrieb Marko Mäkelä: On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:36:58PM +0100, Bernhard Hiller wrote: Hence my question is: is it possible to get one node into the index

[mkgmap-dev] One node - two index entries?

2013-11-09 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Background: Often hotels have a restaurant also, the combination of amenity=restaurant and tourism=hotel on one node (or area) is quite common. Now the hotel should be in "Lodging - Hotel", and the restaurant somewhere in "Food and Drink". Hence my question is: is it possible to get one node in

[mkgmap-dev] Address index for multi-country map

2013-11-04 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I try to build a map of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Czech Republic with a functional address index. I downloaded the Geofabrik extracts for those countries, combined them (after conversion to o5m format) with osmconvert, split them, and create the map. The result is quite mixed: some pla

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Numerical comparison of two tags

2013-11-02 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Steve, thanks for the patch. I've just re-created the test map, and it works! When will that patch be included in future releases? Regards, Bernhard ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mk

[mkgmap-dev] Numerical comparison of two tags

2013-11-01 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I'd like to set maxspeed to the minimum of maxspeed, maxspeed:forward, and maxspeed:backward. In my lines file, I use: |maxspeed:forward=*& maxspeed!=* { set maxspeed='${maxspeed:forward}' } maxspeed:forward=*& (maxspeed:forwardThat works only if exactly one tag is set. But when both forward a

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Provincial capitals

2013-09-30 Thread Bernhard Hiller
es} [0x0700 level 4 continue with_actions ] place=city & population > & cityxx!=yes {set cityxx=yes} [0x0800 level 3 continue with_actions ] ... Am 29.09.2013 10:53, schrieb Bernhard Hiller: > How can provincial capitals be detected by a style rule? I want to > show t

[mkgmap-dev] Provincial capitals

2013-09-29 Thread Bernhard Hiller
How can provincial capitals be detected by a style rule? I want to show them at low zoom level, even if their population is rather little. Example: Phangnga town (South Thailand) has a population of some 10,000 people, but it is the capital of Phangnga province (see http://www.openstreetmap.org

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Check style AND type

2013-09-08 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Thanks for the hint. The tools can at least do this one step, though the number format shown is a little confusing. But it cannot check for items in the TYP file which are not used in the style. And it cannot show the definitions in style file vs. TYP file, i.e. embassy and prison may stay mixed

[mkgmap-dev] Check style AND type

2013-08-25 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Is there a possibility to check a style together with the corresponding type file? For example, a type could contain a line/poi/area which is not used at all in the style. The other way round may be less important due to Garmin's default style, I think it should be possible to check that too. Bu

Re: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap and "memory-full-error"

2013-05-30 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Hi Christian, I experienced the memory full error on my Oregon 400t some time ago. It seems that it was caused by a broken map, since never did it occur again after replacing that one map with a newer version. Kind regards, Bernhard Am 29.05.2013 23:17, schrieb Christian H. Bruhn: > Hi! > > I'v

[mkgmap-dev] Bug-Report: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException

2013-02-13 Thread Bernhard Hiller
After upating from version 2337 to 2484, I receive following error: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.osmstyle.eval.AbstractOp.value(AbstractOp.java:110) at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.osmstyle.eval.EqualsOp.eval(EqualsOp.java:44) at uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.o

Re: [mkgmap-dev] _link roads speed limit needs increasing

2012-08-05 Thread Bernhard Hiller
The ramps connect a secondary to a trunk. Hence, I'd tag them as trunk_link, not secondary_link. That could result in correct routing. But in the Bing images, the "dirt track" looks more like a residential, which could contribute a contrary effect. Since the ramps are very long in that special c

[mkgmap-dev] --generate-sea: no coastline shown

2012-02-19 Thread Bernhard Hiller
Due to problems with "--generate-sea" (for some - but not all - areas, no sea is drawn at all), I included "natural=coastline [0x15 resolution 10]" in my style. But the coastline never was visible on the map. Only after removing the "--generate-sea"option, the coastline shows up. Can that be fi

[mkgmap-dev] Style rule for dual carriageways

2012-01-18 Thread Bernhard Hiller
I tried to make a map with an extra style for dual carriageways for each of highway=primary, secondary, and tertiary. The problem is that I do not see an appropriate tag to search for. Dual carriageways are characterized by two roughly parallel ways with oneway=yes. It is not necessary that the