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[mkgmap-dev] Problem in splitter (Africa)

From Steve Sgalowski steve.sgalowski at gmail.com on Mon Jan 5 21:07:37 GMT 2015

gerd and carlos
i am now running the splitter log file setup on my canada map
and see what it does , the end result on this map = 6.8 gb img file
wonder why some country can exceed and others not
stephen


On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Carlos Dávila <cdavilam at orangecorreo.es>
wrote:

> Not sure what you mean. If you split a given country in a higher number of
> tiles (lower max-nodes) final size will be the same or slightly bigger, as
> there are more duplicated info due to overlap. Or you are loosing some
> information in the process to reduce final file size.
>
> El 05/01/15 a las 21:34, Steve Sgalowski escribió:
>
>> in some of the countries i do , if i dont make the node count small , the
>> map size exceedds , size limit of 3 gb
>> then unshure how , canada has done this ok
>>
>> stephen
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Gerd Petermann <
>> gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com <mailto:gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I wonder what splitter should do in this case:
>>
>>     Stephen uses paramter --max-nodes=80000
>>     and splitter reports
>>     "Highest node count in a single grid element is 557,084"
>>
>>     It is obvious that at least one tile will have much more than the
>>     requested 80.000 nodes,
>>     on the other hand, the file africa.osm.pbf contains large nearly
>>     empty areas,
>>     and that makes it very difficult to find a good split.
>>     The current version r416 fails because it doesn't accept tiles
>>     with less than 5% of
>>     the max-nodes value, so it searches for a solution where every
>>     tile has at least 4000 nodes,
>>     and that might not exist.
>>
>>     I see these options:
>>     1) splitter can continue trying to split the data, accepting
>>     almost empty output files
>>     (e.g. some with < 5 nodes and very high aspect ratios like 32)
>>     2) if that fails,  splitter can set the max-nodes value to 557,084
>>     and try again
>>     3) or stop with an error message that tells the user that it is
>>     not possible
>>     to split with the used resolution
>>     4) or restart using a higher resolution  (15 would be required
>>     here instead of 13),
>>
>>     @Stephen
>>     What reason do you have to use such a small max-nodes value?
>>     Would it be ok for you to use a higher one?
>>
>>     Gerd
>>
>>
>>
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