[mkgmap-dev] Baltic map looking good

Sat Jan 2 17:28:39 GMT 2010


Mark Burton wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
> 
>> I see you've got lots of placeholder polygons in your TYP file.  Do you 
>> know what these are / what they do / why one might want to use them?
> 
> If you use a TYP file, then you require either a polygon definition or
> a placeholder for every type of polygon that you want in the map.
> That's because those definitions specify the drawing level of the
> polygon. If you leave out the definition/placeholder for a given type
> of polygon, it will become invisible.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
So why have a placeholder when you could just put in a polygon definition?
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Charlie