[mkgmap-dev] Misc documentation fixes

Tue Jun 16 10:48:39 BST 2020

Hi Gerd

I think mentioning MapSource in the documentation is useful. I had not
used it before and found it trivial to install compared with the
difficulties there are in installing Basecamp on a Windows 7 machine.

Once installed it was simpler and faster than Basecamp and had
capabilities close to my eTrex HCx which seem to have been removed from
Basecamp and newer Garmin devices. I was also pleasantly surprised that
it found my --gmapi maps from the same location as Basecamp uses.

I also note that the documentation mentions QLandkarte. This has been
discontinued and QMapShack is recommended instead; but from this
information I wouldn't remove QLandKarte from the documentation and
wouldn't add QMapShack unless it is known to work with mkgmap maps.

Ticker

On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 08:37 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Ticker,
> 
> I like the idea to fix the svn version :) Should work for quite a
> while...
> 
> Not sure why you want to add MapSource again to the documentation? It
> was removed after this discussion:
> http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/License-File-mapid-000-license-txt-tp5
> 963502p5963711.html
> 
> Gerd
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk>
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Juni 2020 18:07
> An: mkgmap development
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Misc documentation fixes
> 
> Hi Gerd
> 
> Here are some documentation fixes & improvements + a change to
> build.xml to use 4 chars for the unknown version number so that
> offsets
> match the typical 4 digit svn version number. This minimises noise
> when
> comparing the display of internal structures.
> 
> I can't tell if I've got the layout in typ-compiler.txt correct until
> it appears on http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/doc/typ-compiler
> If it looks bad I'll do another patch.
> 
> Ticker
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