[mkgmap-dev] Slightly OT: TYP files, lines with borders

Sat Feb 13 15:37:14 GMT 2010

Charlie Ferrero escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> Many people have created TYP files that define lines to have borders,
> to make them look more like paper maps (e.g. the UK's OS series). 
> This looks fine in Mapsource, but in the GPS unit things go horribly
> wrong (see screencap).  In effect, the GPS draws the border
> *perpendicular* to the way in question every time it encounters the
> end of a wayed segment.  Given that in OSM ways are usually composed
> of multiple segments joined together, this means that ways on the GPS
> are a horrible collection of little "worms" all joined together.  The
> resulting effect is unusable.
>
> But as I say, this doesn't happen at all in MapSource (second
> screenshot).
>
> Is this a known problem with TYPs, line definitions with borders and
> (certain?) Garmin GPS units or am I doing something silly?
I have motorways (0x01) defined with borders (2 common colors
(line/border or fg/bg), line style: width 2px + border 1 px in the
online editor) and I don't see those worms neither in nuvi nor in legend
HCx.