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[mkgmap-dev] locator rules and transparent maps

From WanMil wmgcnfg at web.de on Sat Mar 30 17:20:57 GMT 2013

Please ensure that you use at least mkgmap version r2479. In older 
versions it happened that --transparent did not work for some countries.

WanMil


> Hi,
>
> I've observed a similar behaviour in BaseCamp. I don't know why the
> parameter '--transparent' does not what it is expected to do, but the
> background with type '0x4b' is always shown in BaseCamp regardless if the
> parameter is set or not.
> Is this caused due to BaseCamp behaviour or due to a possible bug in mkgmap?
>
> Is one of these parameters I use at least the reason for creating the
> background (multi)polygon?
> ... --add-pois-to-lines --add-pois-to-areas --pois-to-areas-placement
> --link-pois-to-ways --adjust-turn-headings=1 --process-exits --merge-lines
> --remove-short-arcs --reduce-point-density --reduce-point-density-polygon
> --min-size-polygon --draw-priority=10 --index --route --tdbfile ...
>
> A workaround is to add a transparent bitmap with type '0x4b' to the '.typ'
> file and delete the corresponding entry in the '[_drawOrder]' section.
>
> Is there already an answer / a solution to the previous post from Thorsten?
>
> Thank you.
>



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