[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH V2] boundary preparer with quadtree

Wed Feb 8 18:14:21 GMT 2012

Am 08.02.2012 19:05, schrieb WanMil:
>> Where is the benefit of a converter? I think it would be better to tell
>> the user, that he should download or create new bounds-files.
>>
>> Henning
>>
> If you ask me: throw away the old stuff. But I expect that some people
> will complain ("I have precompiled bounds with perfect data. I want to
> continue using it...")). So if it is *easy* to implement there is
> nothing wrong with providing a converter.
Ok, you're right.

> Bye the way: On April 1st the licence changes and I expect that there
> will be some gaps in the boundaries afterwards.
Are there some official statements about the map-license after 
license-change? Will it be a produced work or a database? How about your 
boundary-files? So if maps will be a produced work, than we could use 
old boundary-files until they were remapped.

Henning