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Experimental routing support

Please help test out routing support in mkgmap by downloading one of the distributions below and testing it out.

There are several known issues and routing support should be considered experimental at the moment, but we would like to get some early feedback.

In particular you need to be aware of the following issues:

• Only works with Polish format input files at the moment. Therefore you should get osm2mp to convert from .osm to .mp
• May not work well in MapSource, but if you have any success let us know, including the version number.

Updated Aug 2009 Removed old links. Now supported in latest main line releases

Please give feedback to the mailing list at: mkgmap-dev (at) lists.mkgmap.org.uk or on the wiki on the routing talk page.

For further information see the mkgmap routing page.

A gentoo package for mkgmap

I've had word from Hanno Böck that there is a gentoo package for mkgmap. It's in the official gentoo tree, so it's just a matter of doing the following:

 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge mkgmap

The link to the package page for mkgmap.

There are a number of other useful map related packages such as JOSM and mapnik that are used by OSM on the geosciences page too.

Subversion upgrade

The subversion repository for mkgmap has been upgraded to 1.5 and at the same time it was moved to a different machine. You don't have to do anything and everything should look the same as it was, but I'm letting you all know just in case I've forgotten to set something up properly.

If you see that the latest version is 665 or above then you are seeing the new server.

mkgmap now in Debian

There is now a Debian package for mkgmap, in "sid".

Thanks to Andreas Putzo who made and uploaded the package and to the debian GIS team. Andreas also wrote the mkgmap man page which has been incorporated into the main mkgmap code base.

Nightly builds are currently disabled

I stopped the nightly build that produces the mkgmap snapshots for a while as there are a number of changes being made that are large and not well tested. It has always been the case that the nightly snapshots are almost always perfectly usable and quickly fixed if not. Usually they are better than the version that is marked as "stable". So they are disabled until this is likely to be true again after branches are merged back to the main trunk.

Of course feel free to build from subversion if you want to experiment with the latest and greatest.