[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v3] remove bogus nodes

Sat Nov 28 21:30:12 GMT 2009

Hi Marko,

Thanks for the report.

> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:03:14PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
> > v3 - now duplicates ways so that any structural changes to the way made
> > while processing a line/road will not affect the original way and so
> > each map object generated from the original way will see the full set
> > of points in the way.
> 
> Works for me (Edge 705) on Finland.  Tried bicycle routing to the Pasila
> and Mikkeli railway stations (22.7 and 253,7 km, respectively).  The
> gmapsupp.img was slightly shrunk (40.6 MiB to 40.2 MiB) by this patch.
> The route to Mikkeli makes the same stupid detour before Heinola that
> I reported in the wiki at routing/issues last August.  The route to
> Heinola is fine (114.9 km), and I guess that the route from Heinola to
> Mikkeli would be fine.
> 
> In other words, the patch seems to be fine.  I dismiss the detour
> as a Garminware feature.

Good, glad it's working OK. Yes, the space saving is not huge but it
kinda makes up for having to revert back to the larger Table A.

FYI - On the GB map data it's removing approx 5-10% of routing nodes.

Cheers,

Mark