[mkgmap-dev] Overview map for Africa

Mon Mar 25 13:18:23 GMT 2013

Hi Felix,

I'm confused. You start with clear no, but the rest sound like a big yes ?
Since I did not suggest any solution: What was the "no" for?

Gerd

Felix Hartmann-2 wrote
> No, definitely not. There should rather be work on a real overview map. 
> There is a branch for it, but it lacks it's own style.
> We will need a separate style for the overview map. This will greatly 
> help overview in Basecamp/Mapsource/Qlankdarte GT. On the device any map 
> lower than resolution 18, is bad, because the background map is much 
> better and 16 or 14 (speed!). If the map goes down to 14 or 16, than too 
> many tiles have to be opened, in order to draw it, hence a hefty 
> slowdown. Same on desktop. A multi-level overview map - say 12,14,16 is 
> what we really need.
> 
> 
> There is a good description about overview maps also here: 
> www.*maptk*.dnsalias.com/*MapTk*/*MapTk*_en.pdf
> -- scroll to page 20.
> 
> 
> On 25.03.2013 09:31, GerdP wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> while testing the latest patches I found something strange:
>> I created a map for Africa with default style using
>> java -Xmx6000m -jar mkgmap.jar --max-jobs --nsis
>> --precomp-sea=f:\osm\sea_20130308.zip
>> -c template.args
>>
>> When I open this map in Basecamp I just see white rectangle. I have to
>> zoom
>> in multiple times to see
>> anything. Wouldn't it be better to change the default so that we display
>> at
>> least the boundaries off continents on very low resolutions?
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Gerd
>>
>>
>>
>>
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