[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap style parsing question.

Fri Oct 15 17:33:47 BST 2010

Hi Till,

you can use the OSM-Composer to create your map.
This tool is generating such a report.

Walter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Till Straumann" <Till.Straumann at alumni.TU-Berlin.de>
To: <mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:21 AM
Subject: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap style parsing question.

> Hi.
> 
> I'm a new user of mkgmap -- many thanks for the great tool!! --
> and I have a suggestion:
> 
> After creating one of my first maps
> I was surprised to not see a particular feature in the 'img'
> map even though it is present in OSM.
> 
> After digging around for a while I found that this feature
> is marked in OSM as 'railway=disused'.
> 
> I found that the default mkgmap style has a 'railway=abandoned'
> rule and after I added 'railway=disused' everything worked
> as expected. Apparently, since mkgmap didn't find a rule
> for 'railway=disused' the railway just got silently dropped.
> 
> What I believe could be useful (if this feature is already
> available then forgive me posting) would be an option to
> report ignored tags and tag/value pairs which would alert
> the user that certain features are not rendered by the
> current style.
> 
> Thanks again
> -- Till
> 
> PS: Please 'cc' me on any replies; I'm not (yet) subscribed
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