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[mkgmap-dev] Options

From Felix Hartmann extremecarver at gmail.com on Mon Dec 10 13:56:46 GMT 2012

On 08.12.2012 20:40, WanMil wrote:
>> --drive-on-left, --drive-on-right -- Could this be included into the
>> country abbr list we have in the resources - there are not so many
>> drive-on-left countries anyhow, so we just add them, and assume
>> drive-on-right for all other countries. Option is a very bad idea,
>> because you can't use it for a map of europe (or other multi country
>> regions).
>
> You cannot use it also if data of two countries - one with drive on 
> left and one with drive on right - is in the same tile.
> When both options are not set and --check-roundabouts is set mkgmap 
> makes an autodetection by analysing the direction of the first 
> roundabout. But this detection stores the information in a static 
> variable so when using max-jobs > 1 the drive-on-xxx info might be 
> interchanged between tiles.
>
> WanMil
So it would be best to add it to /resources/LocatorConfig.xml , wouldn't 
it. Just set it the same way, as the country for the address is set. We 
would only need an additional line for each country in there, to define 
those, that drive-on-right....


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