[mkgmap-dev] Index: MDR12 breaking POI search

Wed Jan 19 22:22:55 GMT 2011

Hi

> In mdr_creator.cpp in line 1291 is a difference between mdr8 and mdr12.
> The lenght of the mdr12 dataset needs place for one more bit. I cannot

I will double check, although I probably deal with it.

> find any code where the mdr12 gets written out, so I cannot see the
> meaning of the bit. Would it be the same as usual, an unique flag?
> Probably not, each 4 char block is unique by design.

The published cpreview does not write out mdr8 and 12, and I am not
sure that it (the cpreview code) is entirely correct anyway.
Section mdr17 seems to do a similar thing.

I previously thought that the sections 8/12 might be useful for the
device, but on thinking about it they cannot be. Mapsource must
re-calculate them when you select a subset of all the maps to be
transfered.

Anyway if mdr12 caused a crash for some people (it never did for me)
then we should just remove it for now.

..Steve