Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

On 6 December 2016 2:29:40 pm Lynn Deffenbaugh wrote: 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF is a UTF-8 Byte Order Marker. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 6:11:13 PM UTC-5, A Thompson wrote: Thank you Nick! That's very helpful and explains why

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

0xEF 0xBB 0xBF is a UTF-8 Byte Order Marker. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 6:11:13 PM UTC-5, A Thompson wrote: > > Thank you Nick! That's very helpful and explains why my renderer with > underscores in its filename stopped working after a

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Thank you Nick! That's very helpful and explains why my renderer with underscores in its filename stopped working after a recent update, and was fixed by renaming the file. It doesn't explain why I was getting that same error toast message with Roger's renderer named "IslandKiller.render.xml"

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Thanks Roger, OsmAnd 2.5.2 is the version that has appeared on Google Play in the last few days. I think it jumped all the way from 2.4.7. With the standard OsmAnd or "Touring view" renderers, The "Great Britain" text still appears as I scroll around East Sussex, though it's not as intrusive

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

On 11 November 2016 3:18:16 am A Thompson wrote: On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 11:12:41 AM UTC+1, Roger James wrote: Can anyone try my custom render file and see if it works for them. Testing in Osmand 2.5.2 this doesn't work for me. However, I've added the same

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 11:12:41 AM UTC+1, Roger James wrote: > > Can anyone try my custom render file and see if it works for them. > Testing in Osmand 2.5.2 this doesn't work for me. However, I've added the same code to a renderer I offered in another thread, and it does then have

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

The Great Britain multipolygon relation with the place=island tag does not include any Northern Island coastline ways. The problem here is a classic cartographical one. How do you render information relating to a physically large geographical area without obscuring information relating to

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

There is more :( When looking at say the Isle of Wight (a large island close to the south coast of England, near Southampton) you see text "Isle of Wight" obscuring the detail at zoom level 0.25 miles down to Zoom level 2 yd. Who needs it? If we must have it, why not at Zoom levels more like

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Please add me to the list of people who would rather not see it. It is irritating and irrelevant. Paul W -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Hi, Great Britain has reappeared on my maps. I had put in a custom rendering XML which had stopped it appearing. That has ceased working. However the text has moved off centre, so it is not quite as annoying. I presume a recent update of osmand has done this. It is a pity though that it has

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Hi Roger, I fully agrree with you that it is annoying. I reacted when it was posted earlier in this thread as an OsmAnd error in the issue list, but that is not correct. If I was not clear (enough) about that I'm sorry. It being such an annoyance one might want to adapt OsmAnd to "falsely"

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

Harry, This issue will appear wherever an "island" tag is used. Whether it is on a multiple or a single polygon. There appears to be an implicit assumption in most of the renderers that "islands" are small and should be rendered at the higher zoom levels. However islands such as Great

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

I got it wrong in my last post. Further down the wiki page on "place=island" there is a section on "large islands" that contradicts the information given at the top. It says that large islands (coastlines with over 4000 nodes) should be mapped with multipolygons. So the data is correct.

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

More widespread than just GB. The problem I referred to above related to the South Island of New Zealand. "South Island" is displayed centre screen. Interestingly the North Island doesn't have the same problem. Regards On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:18:30 UTC+12, Roger James wrote: > > I

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

I have just looked at the data for the Great Britain case. The "place=island" tag has been applied to a multipolygon relation. According to the OSM wiki this is specifically not allowed! So a strong case for removing this tag could be made. However I do not think this invalidates the bug that

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

I have experienced the same problem for some time. I always know which country or island I'm on and don't need to be reminded! The label obscures map detail and I wish it could be removed or turned off. Cheers On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 21:17:05 UTC+12, Fred Flintstone wrote: > >

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

I did not want to mix in as up till now it was just about annoyance about the fact that Great Britain appeared. I don't think it is an OsmAnd error though but a tag connected to Great Britain, consisting of England, Scotland and Wales. It appears in all. But it is the same for Magic Earth where

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

It definitely appears on England South East. It started happening recently. I agree it is annoying, and it is also unnecessary. Please can it be fixed. PW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

It definitely appears on England South East. It started happening recently. I agree it is annoying, and it is also unnecessary. Please can it be fixed. PW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Text "Great Britain" appears in centre of screen in Scotland vector map

OSMAnd+ V2.4.6 with "United Kingdom Scotland" vector file V 1 Sep 2016. It looks like this is a problem in the vector file. Most likely someone has added "Great Britain" to the OSM data as a region although I can't find it. The problem is that OSMAnd renders "Great Britain" slap bang in the