[mkgmap-dev] Splitter r95 - improved command line handling, tile naming based on location

Sun Sep 20 11:13:21 BST 2009

Ah yeah, it's not very clever I'm afraid, that looks like a bug :(  I'll 
fix it later this afternoon, but in the meantime it looks like you'll have 
to put the zip file in the current directory (or hack the code yourself).

Another thing, I'd recommend against using anything other than the cities*.zip 
files for now. I don't currently take into account the record type in the 
file, so I'm not sure what'll happen if the file contains anything other 
than city entries. It's on the todo list!

Chris

MB> Hi Chris,
MB> 
>> - Tiles can be named based on the area they cover. To use this,
>> download one of the cities files from
>> http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ and point to it with
>> --geonames-file=cities<xxx>.zip. The splitter will then try to name
>> each tile sensibly based on the biggest city in the tile. No doubt
>> this logic can be improved in the future but it's hopefully still
>> quite useful as it stands.
>> 
MB> I tried this but it failed:
MB> 
MB> Error opening or reading file java.io.IOException: Unable to find a
MB> file inside /home/markb/OSM/GB.zip that starts with
MB> /home/markb/OSM/GB
MB> 
MB> java.io.IOException: Unable to find a file inside
MB> /home/markb/OSM/GB.zip that starts with /home/markb/OSM/GB
MB> 
MB> I guess it needs to strip the pathname from the zip file name?
MB> 
MB> Cheers,
MB> 
MB> Mark
MB> 