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[mkgmap-dev] Patch v3 for overview map

From GerdP gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com on Sun Mar 31 12:05:41 BST 2013

Hi Felix,

don't worry, the wrong code was not used for the creation of maps. It shows
only when 
creating the overview map.

Gerd


Felix Hartmann-2 wrote
> On 31.03.2013 11:15, GerdP wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> while trying to implement a decoder for data with extended types I found
>> two bugs in the version 2 of the patch:
>> 1) the img format allows (normal) types 0x01 - 0x3f for lines and
>> 0x01-0x7f
>> for polygons,
>> the original code made no destinction
> Better restrict the original code in mkgmap to 0x01 - 0x3f for lines 
> too. Or are there any compatibility advantages on old Garmin GPS units? 
> AFAIK (and I'm pretty sure) Garmin themselves never used 0x4 - 0x7 for 
> lines, but they did so for polygons (hence no compatibility problems in 
> this range for polygons).
> Actually even 0x3 for lines has never been used by Garmin AFAIK and will 
> not show up on all devices. (0x2a - 0x2f I'm not sure, but wouldn't use 
> them either and resort to extended types - but I wouldn't exclude them 
> by mkgmap). I think since mkgmap supports extended types (roughly 3 
> years if I remember correctly) - 0x3 and up for lines is not a good way 
> of creating a map which is supposed to work on all Garmin GPS devices....
>> 2) the first point of a line or shape was dropped, this caused esp. many
>> lines to be missing
>> in the overview map.
>>
>> overview_v3.patch
>> <http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/file/n5755292/overview_v3.patch>
>>
>> The compiled binary is here:
>> http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/97/mkgmap.jar
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>>
>>
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