[mkgmap-dev] There is not enough room in a single garmin map for all the input data

Sun Dec 30 14:11:18 GMT 2012

Am 30.12.2012 13:27, schrieb GerdP:
> WanMil wrote
>> How do you avoid that land area is filled with the sea/background color?
>> What you describe is the --generate-sea=polygon variant which can be
>> used in combination with --precomp-sea. But this has the disadvantage
>> that you have a background sea polygon covering the whole tile and land
>> polygons on top of it. So if you click on land you always have sea under
>> the land...
> Oh, I forgot to mention that Klaus style does also assign something for
> natural = land
>
> If the style is not the right place to handle the problem, I think I must
> find
> an estimate for the number of bytes that are needed to save a polygon so
> that
> splitter can weight a node in the precompiled sea files.
> In simple words: Probably splitter should count these nodes with a factor of
> 2 or 3.
But wouldn't this lead into other problems? If you split some tiles 
covering Finland, Sweden and Baltic Sea you will have some tiles without 
any real data. If I remember correct, this will lead to an boot loop on 
some devices.

Henning