[mkgmap-dev] Serious Bug - Mkgmap creating map that puts news GPS (confirmed etrex 30, Oregon 550) into bootloop

Fri Feb 24 09:04:57 GMT 2012

I just tried - I left out the two main tiles of the Bay of Biscay, and 
it booted (and to confirm I created the gmapsupp.img with both mkgmap 
with and without address search, and also Mapsource). Leaving out either 
of the two tiles,
So leaves us to wonder, why is it not booting with them.

The main thing inside those two tiles, is the ferry line, go straight 
across. Is it possible, that we have to use shorter staight lines? Where 
could I patch mkgmap to split up straight lines say 5x as often?
The other thing could be - that there must be at least one city POI in 
each tile (or at least any?? POI in each tile) - as both tiles don't 
have any city. And only one of the two tiles has a POI at all.

I'll also try what happens if I create the map with default style-file. 
But I think it will crash the gps device too.
BTW -- I split france from geofabrik with max-nodes=1200000 and 
maxnodes=1300000 and both results in the same problem.

Or do we have to make sure, that mkgmap never creates such empty tiles?

On 23.02.2012 23:44, Minko wrote:
> On a Dakota 20 I can confirm this behaviour.
> If I leave only tile 63910019 out of it, it still won't boot up.
> I did not try it without tile 63910035.
> With a smaller mapset with 63910019 and 63910035 and a few others, no problems.
> Also tried to leave out two other tiles in the north, but then it still won't boot.
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