[mkgmap-dev] Cutting down the default style

Tue Nov 8 21:58:40 GMT 2011

  IIRC, Lambertus also filters out power lines from the data. Does anyone 
  want to have them in the default style? If not, I think that the default 
  style should omit boundaries and power lines. They are rarely useful in 
  well-mapped areas.

I completely disagree.  Power lines very useful in non-urban well-mapped
areas where they are signficant features.  But I can see that some
people would find them clutter in a dense city.

I don't understand the objection to boundaries.   Do people really
expect those not to appear?

I don't understand how we can be talking about "default style" and
"multi-layer map" at the same time.  It would seem that the default
style should support a map that is broadly useful to all people in all
circumstances (a tall order).

It may be that we end up with a rural and and urban default style, and
people have to choose.

A multi-layer map with selectable elemnts is a reason to change the
default style to simple when the out-of-the-box mkgmap can process the
files multiple times, make transparent layers according to a (supplied!)
config file, and then merge the results multiple layers into one .img
(and make multiple .gmapi/windows).  It doesn't seem we are there yet.
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