[mkgmap-dev] splitter and o5m

Mon Aug 29 09:28:23 BST 2011

Am 28.08.2011 17:15, schrieb WanMil:
>>>> Splitter is generating more than 255 tiles. But there is (or was?) a
>>>> limit of 255 tiles per pass. I am not sure if this limit is still
>>>> valid. The webpage (http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/tile-splitter) is a
>>>> bit out of date, e.g. does not tell about support for pbf files.
>>> Hi WanMil
>>>
>>> Current behaviour is, that max. 255 tiles are generated out of an
>>> existing areas.list-file. If there are 256 tiles listed, just the first
>>> 128 tiles were generated. Maybe there is a bug in reading
>>> aeras.list-file with more than 255 entries?
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>> Yes, sounds like a bug.
>>
>> WanMil
> Henning,
>
> I have tried to reproduce the problem but everything was ok.
> I used an areas.list with 256 tiles. Splitter uses two passes with each
> 128 tiles. After the first 128 tiles there are some messages that some
> worker threads have finished and it takes some time between finishing
> the first 128 tiles and starting the other 128 tiles.
>
> Can you please recheck if you really have the problem?
>
> WanMil
Hi WanMil and a big sorry. I never thought about a second run of 
splitter. I just noticed that splitter just processes half of the tiles. 
It works fine in two runs and seems to be faster than two separate runs.
Do you have a guess why splitter needs a second run?

Henning