[mkgmap-dev] Land polygon from sea generator

Tue Jun 7 23:55:32 BST 2011

WanMil,

>> During the run of mkgmap, three tiles produced errors like this:
>> SEVERE (MapSplitter): 63240175.osm.gz: Area too small to split at
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.03131&mlon=0.87899&zoom=17 (reduce
>> the density of points, length of lines, etc.)
>
> This is a known problem of mkgmap. There is much work to do to fix that.
> You might read
> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2011q1/009960.html and
> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2011q2/011379.html for
> more info.

My main reason for reporting this, was as an example of this error
having small consequences. This is in contrast to other contributors to
this list, who have reported much bigger consequences.