[mkgmap-dev] documentation of new option in branch

Mon Nov 4 16:06:22 GMT 2019

Hi

I think the default should be either:
  Don't check for routing islands
or:
  Check for and remove islands of any length
but I don't feel that strongly about this aspect.

In the documentation, it should mention the effect of a road meeting a
tile boundary or boundary nodes added at admin boundaries.

I've been using this feature for a couple of weeks now and it has
stopped a lot of "Route Calculation Error"s - Thanks Gerd.

Ticker

On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 15:37 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> as always the information is written with the logger (1). You have to
> activate logging at info level with
> uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.app.net.RoadNetwork.level=INFO
> 
> (1) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/dev#Enabling_Debugging
> 
> Using a negative value for NUM means that mkgmap doesn't calculate
> the islands at all, using
> 0 means that it only reports the islands. If you want to remove
> islands you can start with a value like
> 500. The default is 0.
> 
> Gerd
> 
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> Gesendet: Montag, 4. November 2019 16:29
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> Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] documentation of new option in branch
> 
> Hi Gerd
> 
> Thanks for all you work with regards routing islands!
> 
> a) Is there a way of finding out how many .if any. routing islands
> were found given a certain length?
> 
> b)  if NUM is negative is there any point in adding --check-routing
> -island-len=NUM
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2019 13:58, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I think the work on the branch is almost done.
> Attached is a patch to add documentation for the new option.
> Please help to improve it:
> 
> --check-routing-island-len=NUM
>         Routing islands are small road networks which are not
> connected to other
>         roads. Typical case is a footway that is not connected to the
> main road
>         network. These islands can cause problems if you try to
> calculate a route
>         and Garmin selects a point on the island as a start. It will
> fail to
>         calulate the route even if a major road is only a few steps
> away.
>         When calculating the NOD data mkgmap detects the islands. The
> option
>         --check-routing-island-len=NUM can be used to tell mkgmap
> that islands with
>         a total length below NUM meters should not be written to NOD.
> The effect is
>         that the corresponding roads are visible as usual but they
> are not
>         routable.
>         A negative value for NUM means that mkgmap skips the island
> check.
> 
> ciao
> Gerd
> 
> 
> 
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