[mkgmap-dev] Rounding off population

Sun Jul 30 21:02:46 BST 2023

Hi Gerd

Many thanks ; that sounds good !

Nick

On 30/07/2023 13:09, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> sorry for the late response.
> I think this problem can and should be solved in the style. If you want to tolerate wrong values like this you can use a rule like
> population=* {set population='${population|subst:,=>}'}
> to remove the comma before before evaluating it further in other rules.
>
> ciao,
> Gerd
>
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>
> Hi
>
> I  have a feeling mkgmap rounds off population when a comma has been
> inserted thinking it is a 'continental decimal comma'
>
> In my style I have
>
> place=village & population < 30 {set place=hamlet;echotags "village to
> hamlet"}
>
> The following place node gets flagged up as it has been given a
> population of 1
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/271408#map=18/50.82664/-1.70104
>
> When I look at the osm tags it contains:
>
> population:1,350
>
> Perhaps we should not round off population data?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Nick
>
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