[mkgmap-dev] What is ${mkgmap:boundary_name}

Sat Dec 4 05:48:10 GMT 2010

When I create a map of Cambodia with the default style I get garbage in
the boundary names (a mixture of Thai and other regional script which
will not display correctly). Looking at the data I can see that this
comes from the name tag so I need to select name:en and only use name
where no name:en exists.

I first tried using the option --name-tag-list=name:en, name

expecting that the boundaries would now use the name:en tag, but this
had no effect that I could see. Next I tried editing the line style, and
I got the tags to display in English by commenting out this line:

boundary=administrative { name '${mkgmap:boundary_name}' }

This appears to be setting the name of administrative boundaries to
mkgmap:boundary_name, so I was wondering where mkgmap:boundary_name gets
its value?

Garvan