Re: [mkgmap-dev] Curvy routing support: new function?

2014-07-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
Well I have thought about this too - also new Basecamp has a curvy roads preference - but what should mkgmap do about it? You can calculate if a road is curvy or not, but what then? The only thing you can do until mkgmap knows NT format maps which I think has a special tag for this, is to

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Unicode maps showing locked or not found on GPS units

2014-07-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
From some forums I saw that Edge 800 also does not seem to accept Unicode maps on newest firmware anymore. That would indicate unicode maps will currently be blocked on any unit as soon as it receives a new firmware... (if firmware will be released soon, or has been released within the last

[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

[mkgmap-dev] Command to transliterate Characters/Cyrillic/Greek into latin1 even for Unicode maps?

2014-07-02 Thread Felix Hartmann
The standard behavior so far for my maps in Japan or China was to use --latin1, and hope that all towns/cities/names if not name:en present - got transliterated decently into latin characters. However if using Unicode this is of course not happening. Could there be a command like {set

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

2014-07-02 Thread Andrzej Popowski
Hi Bernhard, On PC index is a file with name *_mdr.img, you can remove this file form registry (probably together with *.mdx). In a gmapsupp.img index is a subfile with name *.mdr. You can split img to subfiles, delete *.mdr and then merge subfiles back. Better Garmin devices have option