[mkgmap-dev] Errors converting "mapnik.txt" into "mapnik.typ" (information only)

Wed Mar 25 19:29:07 GMT 2020

Here is a patch for mapnik.txt that:
- removes a "," from a default string.
- doesn't indent the Bay Xpm section.
- fixes a spelling mistake.

The first 2 changes might stop errors when TYPViewer reads the file

Ticker


On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 08:56 -0700, AnkEric wrote:
> Hi Ticker,
> 
> > Line 1959 - is TYPViewer objecting to "String=River..." because it
> wants something of the form "String1=0x00,River..." or is it
> objecting
> to the "," between River & Wadi?
> 
> This is "acceptable" to TYPViewer:
> String=River Wadi (Intermittent)
> String1=0x01,Cours d’eau (intermittent)
> 
> So (...?) for "unspecified language" (default??) TYPViewer doesn't
> like csv.
> 
> Next TYPViewer will "renumber", so this was not the issue:
> String1=0x00,River Wadi (Intermittent)
> String2=0x01,Cours d’eau (intermittent)
> 
> > Polygon 0x3d errors - Not sure what it doesn't like here
> 
> I don't know either, I just resolved "Quick and (very) Dirty" because
> I
> wanted a proof of concept for a "mapnik"-Map.
> 
> > This polygon should be transparent
> 
> Oké, thanks. Now I have the challenge to use mkgmap to convert typ
> -files
> from .txt to .typ, find a "bay" (have I ever seen one in real life??)
> and
> hopefully I will understand "the long debate".
> 
> > if TYPViewer doesn't allow you to save in the required char-set
> > then this
> > is a fundamental problem
> in using TYPViewer to do the conversion.
> 
> TYPViewer will Save utf8 As utf8 and Save 1252 As 1252. So the
> encoding of
> my source file is leading.
> So I have a work-around.
> 
> Eric (AnkEric)
> 
> 
> 
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