[mkgmap-dev] Error splitting SRTM data

Mon Sep 19 17:14:18 BST 2011

On Mon, Sep 19, Michael Prinzing wrote:

> This might not be sufficient to get a valid file. There is a new limit
> of 2000 nodes per way in OSM 0.6 (see
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6#Changes_to_existing_functionality), 
> and srtm2osm for example exceeds this by far. The contour data for 
> Germany contains ways with more than 460000 nodes. So in addition to 
> adding timestamp and version every way containing more than 2000 nodes 
> has to be split into smaller pieces.
> 
> 
> The conversion from osm 0.5 to 0.6 also can be done with osmosis 0.35. 
> 
> Just call it with
> 
> osmosis --read-xml-0.5 enableDateParsing=no file="data_05.osm" --migrate --write-xml file="data_06.osm"
> 
> This is adding the missing tags, however it does not split ways containing too many nodes.

So why should I install additional an old version os osmosis,
if it doesn't do more than what I can do directly by patching
phyghtmap?

  Thorsten

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