[mkgmap-dev] What's the meaning of the 'has no region' warnings?

Wed Aug 12 11:17:04 BST 2015

OK, but shouldn't region be set by mkgmap from bounds information?

El 12/08/15 a las 11:14, Gerd Petermann escribió:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> I am not sure if this is an error in mkgmap or not.
>
> If you do what the message says, e.g. using --region-name=xyz,
> the message disappears, but I am not sure about the side
> effects and why mkgmap doesn't use a default value.
>
> The message is produced by code that handles motorway-exit nodes,
> they are stored in some index structures, I have no idea why.
> I guess some devices allow (or allowed) to search for exits?
>
> @Steve: The code was introduced with r984 and it used the default
> region to create a label instead of first checking the nodes' region 
> attribute.
> I don't understand that.
>
> Gerd
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:50:01 +0200
> > From: cdavilam at orangecorreo.es
> > To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> > Subject: [mkgmap-dev] What's the meaning of the 'has no region' 
> warnings?
> >
> > What is supposed to be wrong regarding warnings of type '(MapBuilder):
> > 55114001.o5m: Highway EX-A2 has no region (define a default region to
> > zap this warning)'