[mkgmap-dev] How to create the bounds for europe ?

Fri Jan 20 19:09:20 GMT 2012

Hi Martin,

I tried to answer that before (you send me the same question off list) 
but your email account does not seem to be valid. All emails returned...

Unfortunately there is no very common tagging system for postal_codes. 
The postal_code multipolygons are used mostly in Germany but only in 
very rare cases in other countries. This info is some months old so that 
might have been changed.
Zip codes are not very well supported by our knowledge of the garmin 
format so I didn't invest much time to investigate the best combination 
of parameters.
So maybe some of you can evalute which osmfilter parameters give best 
results.

WanMil

> Hello,
>
> short question:
> Is the parameter "postal_code=" correct? I think this will extend the osm-file unnecessarily. We only want to get the postal_code&admin_level-boundaries, or? With this option we also get every street&building with a postal_code-key.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Am 20.01.2012 um 17:55 schrieb Thorsten Kukuk:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 08, WanMil wrote:
>>
>>> that's fine. I noticed that the parameters for osmfilter described in
>>> the wiki did not include postalcode information. I've updated the wiki.
>>> So if you require postal codes please reload the wiki page.
>>
>> While it is no problem to generate the europe bounds files as described
>> on the wiki page, I always run out of memory for the world files.
>>
>> Does somebody know how much memory is necessary?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Thorsten
>>
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