[mkgmap-dev] bearing/heading influence on routing

Sat Oct 26 20:57:20 BST 2013

Hi Steve,

today I noticed that I can use mkgmaps MapReader to read my Garmin map, it
just doesn't
contain code to read the NOD file. 
I should be able to use that code in a small program like NodDisplay,
just to fill a list of NOD1 offsets.

Gerd

Steve Ratcliffe wrote
> Hi Gerd
> 
>> great. I got lost looking at the different tools (NetDisplay,
>> NodDisplay, NodConvert, NetCheck),
> 
> Ha! I didn't realise or remember that Robert had written NodConvert.
> That could be useful.
> 
> There is also imgdecode, which is at the top of the display project.
> There are a few updates to John Mechalas's implementation so that
> it doesn't crash on modern files.  It is best for TRE LBL and for
> RGN if you don't need the complete set of points.
> 
>> and mkgmap itself also reads the data for the combiners,
> There is only minimal read code in mkgmap and I try to do things
> in display first.
> 
>> If I got this right, we are pretty good (=sure what we do) at reading
>> RGN, LBL and NET, while
>> NOD1 data is difficult to read, and looking at the output of NodDisplay
> 
> Well there are still a few problems reading NET as well.
> 
> So NOD1 has the most complex structure, but at least there are
> section that have a length so we can always re-sync.
> 
>> Or more generally: Start reading what is known best, extract and store
>> pointers,
> 
> Yes, we have had code like that before, sometimes I take it out once
> it is not needed any more.
> 
> ..Steve
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