[mkgmap-dev] Options

Tue Apr 7 08:38:12 BST 2015

Hi Steve,

okay, I'll try to update the wiki first. Can't believe that it is already 
more than two years old :-O

Gerd

> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 20:59:58 +0100
> From: steve at parabola.me.uk
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Options
> 
> 
> Hi Gerd
> 
> > I'd like to change some defaults.
> >
> > My understanding so far is that most people want
> > a routable map with address search and housenumber search.
> >
> > So, I think the following options should be on by default:
> > --route
> > --net
> > --index
> > --housenumbers
> > --x-split-name-index
> > --link-pois-to-ways
> > --drive-on=detect
> 
> Yes, there was a discussion some time ago where we agreed to
> change many things.
> The document at : 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/dev/option-review
> is not up to date with that discussion but just go ahead and do
> anything that you still agree with on that list.
> 
> (I can't log in to the wiki at the moment, but --lower-case is
> more useful now since modern devices support it, --net is OK to
> keep if it works and for some of the options that I was unsure of
> why they were needed, people told me that they were useful etc.)
> 
> > @Steve:
> > I tried to implement this but found that some unit tests fail, e.g.
> > TdbTest fails when I just add --net to the default options.
> > Can you have a look at this, please?
> 
> OK I will take a look.
> 
> But does it work?  I thought there was a problem that was difficult to
> fix for the same reason that you alluded to in another post today
> in that some decisions are made in the wrong place.
> But that was a long time ago, perhaps things are better now.
> 
> ..Steve
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