[mkgmap-dev] Transliteration

2013-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
Hi, I'm trying to create two variant maps for Ukraine. The first one should show the labels in cyrillc letter. This works quite fine using mkgmap r2580 and the following command line options --code-page=65001 --name-tag-list=name:uk,name,name:ru,name:en,name:de Precedence is given to the

[mkgmap-dev] Upper / lower case names

2013-01-22 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
Hi, I was observing that that capitalized names on eg. buildings like VW etc. show up in upper and lower case on my Oregon 550. So I played around and tried some different combinations of upper / lower case names. Here is the outcome on the Oregon: name name in OSM - on Oregon

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Problem with splitter

2012-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
an algorithm that reduces only those points that are not needed, but I see no way to do this in splitter because it has to store too much information for that. So, let's see what happens if we write all points and ways... Gerd Wolfgang Hammel wrote Hi Gerd, my first thought was also

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Problem with splitter

2012-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
1) can be done as well. Does that sound reasonable? Gerd Wolfgang Hammel wrote Hi Gerd, when I had the problem some time ago, I did some rough checking on splitters output. What I know so far is, that splitter removes all the ways from a certain tile that have no node inside this tile

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Problem with splitter

2012-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
Hi Gerd, when I had the problem some time ago, I did some rough checking on splitters output. What I know so far is, that splitter removes all the ways from a certain tile that have no node inside this tile. The problem arises when a tile boundary divides a multipolyon that consist of normally

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Problem with splitter

2012-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
Hi, yes you are right, this is a splitter problem which is already known. As you can see in your example, the lake is split in a way that requires it to be split more than once along the bounding rectangle. see : http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2011q3/012119.html and

[mkgmap-dev] Handling of Multipolygons in Tile Splitter

2011-08-15 Thread Wolfgang Hammel
Hi, I ran into a problem with flooded areas around the river Rhine. A europe.osm.pbf from geofabrik.de dated 2011-07-31 was used. I extracted a contiguous area containing roughly Germany and France using osmosis. This extract was spit up into 369 parts using tile splitter r179. After they have