[mkgmap-dev] splitter r246

Tue Nov 27 18:46:25 GMT 2012

WanMil wrote
> Hi Uli,
> 
> the reason for the error is the new split algorithm introduced with 
> splitter r245 and r246. But the split algorithm is *not* defective. It's 
> more an unfortunate combination of circumstances.
> 
> The new split algorithm created the tile 66923055 which covers most of 
> iceland and a very small part of germany. You are using an europe 
> coastline file which means that the whole coastline of this tile should 
> be generated. But this is not iceland and germany only but also big 
> parts of scotland, ireland, england and the west coast of norway. This 
> big amount of data exceeds the tile limits which causes the given error 
> message.
> The split algorithm was working correctly by putting not more than the 
> configured number of nodes into the tile: 1200000. (I did not check that 
> but I assume this is correct.) But this does not and cannot consider the 
> coastline part blanked out in your input data (iceland+germany).
> So with your "two part input data" you have to edit your areas.list file 
> to avoid such situation.
> 
> 
> Some small hints about your mkgmap configuration:
> * I propose to use precompiled sea files (e.g. 
> http://www.navmaps.eu/wanmil/sea_20121020.zip). It's faster and takes 
> less memory.
> 
> * Since r2335 location-autofill=bounds is silently ignored. So you might 
> change your template_basic.args to
> bounds:..\bin\bounds.zip
> location-autofill:is_in,nearest
> 
> * AFAIK latin1 and code-page:1252 are the same. So you can remove one of
> it.
> 
> Have fun!
> WanMil

Hi WanMil,

thanks for your useful tips, i'll incorporate them into my script!

I'm using r247 with my germany+iceland.poly file right now and it works as
expected!

Regards, Uli

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