[mkgmap-dev] buildings rendered on garmin

Fri Apr 17 12:35:55 BST 2009

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> I drove to work with OSM data via mkgmap in my GPS V, and noticed that
> it seemed very sluggish.  When I got to Cambridge I could see the
> outlines of all the buildings, including houses!
>
> These are simple closed ways with building=yes.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.3916&lon=-71.14961&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
>
> I wonder if the GPS V can't really handle that many area features.
>
> It seems best to omit areas with building=yes, or at least building=yes
> w/o name=something.

You can do this by pre-processing the OSM data before you make a .img out of it.