[mkgmap-dev] GPS V?

Thu Apr 16 12:33:37 BST 2009

Greg Troxel wrote:
> Lambertus <osm at na1400.info> writes:
> 
>> Oh, I didn't think of that because of the size of the OSM source
>> file. This probably means that the tile is still too big, so I'll
>> split it in two.
>>
>> I've now looked at the tilesizes and I think that all the tiles with
>> number 73240256 and higher are like this. Pretty much all of North
>> America. I'll try to split those tiles in half as soon as possible
>> (somewhere next week).
> 
> I've done more experimentation and can confirm that with mkgmap r1001
> and a smallish osm file (from josm, about 10 MB), I get a map that has
> roads and seems to work fine on my GPS V, transferred with
> sendmap17Lstatic.
> 
That's good. I still need to resize all those American tiles though...

> Separately, I will have to tweak the style file because footpaths are
> only being rendered at extreme zoom levels (80m I think) when they would
> make sense at 300m:
> 
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.42369&lon=-71.49033&zoom=15&layers=0B00FTF
> 
I hope to be able to add an option to select different TYP files to the 
website soon.

> The problem is that some kinds of items need to be rendered even at
> smaller map scales if there aren't other items around.  These particular
> footpaths are as important as minor roads relative to their
> surroundings.
> 
This doesn't sound like it's simple to implement to me...