[mkgmap-dev] gui for areas.list ?

Sat Aug 29 10:52:58 BST 2009

Chris Miller schrieb:

> C> And the --split-file=<file> option is also not working for me

> Hmm, this one had me stumped for a bit but I think I know what it is. The 
> "mapid = 1" is the giveaway... It looks like the code that parses areas.list 
> currently looks for an 8 digit number - if it doesn't find one it'll fail 
> with the exception you've shown. Because you specified mapid = 1, the ID 
> was written out as a single digit (rather than "00000001").
> 
> Try editing the mapids in the file to give the maps 8 digit numbers, it will 
> then hopefully work OK. I should probably fix the splitter so it zero-pads 
> out the map ID when writing the areas.list file. Though I don't know much 
> about the importance of the map ID - do mkgmap, mapsource, devices etc still 
> work OK if the ID is less than 10000000?

Don't know. For mkgmap I use a 8 digit mapid, only for the splitter
I used the "1".

Chris