[mkgmap-dev] splitter maximum tile size

Tue Dec 4 10:08:33 GMT 2012

On 03/12/2012 22:24, WanMil wrote:
>
> But such large tiles are not displayed by Mapsource and Basecamp. They
> display mkgmap generated tiles only if the longitude and latitude tile
> size is below 179.9x°. I didn't measured the exact x (179.9° works,
> 179.99° does not work).
>
> So a tile with the bounds
> <bounds minlat="-89.0" minlon="-10.0" maxlat="90.0" maxlon="169.9"/>
> can be compiled and displayed with MapSource and Basecamp.
>
> A tile with the bounds
> <bounds minlat="-89.0" minlon="-10.0" maxlat="90.0" maxlon="170.0"/>
> can be compiled with mkgmap but no data is displayed in MapSource and
> Basecamp.
>
> So splitter could use a max limit of 179° for lat and lon but I don't
> know if that makes sense at all.
>

Perhaps this explains why my map of New Zealand is not being shown at 
certain zoomlevels in MapSource when then 180° is in view.

See: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9809