[mkgmap-dev] DEM contrast option?

Wed Jul 4 20:14:15 BST 2018

if you have several dem resolution levels in mkgmap - then it will lose in
detail (in order to zoom in/out faster). You could just create the map is a
single dem resolution - then detail level is always the same.

On 4 July 2018 at 18:52, jan meisters <jan_m23 at gmx.net> wrote:

> I just made my first map with the new DEM-option and I´m impressed. Pretty
> easy.
> But I wonder why DEM shading looses contrast in higher resolutions in
> BaseCamp:
>
>
> My Style has background poly 4a and 4b (both transparent), however they
> are not mentioned in polygons. I wouldn´t know how to tag them anyway.
> And even with a completely blanked typ-file the difference is visible:
>
>
> HGT´s are 3“ data from viewfinderpanaramas.org
>
> To keep the contrasted DEM up to higher resolutions/zooms I played with
> all DEM-options from help, and also with transparencies, but that had no
> effect - the softer shading remains.
>
> I see the switch in Basecamp somewhere between assumed resolutions 20 and
> 22.
> How is this switch defined? Is there a value to adjust this?
>
> Jan
>
>
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