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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Carlos,<br><br>yes, you are right, and splitter is using it. <br>I thought the missing name was the reason for the introduction of the<br>polygon-desc-file parameter in splitter, but in fact it was the possibility to <br>define multiple areas with different names, and I think that is not possible <br>with the *.poly format.<br>After writing my previous post I thought it would<br>also be a good thing to extract an area from the bounds files.<br>The advantage would be that we don't have to mess with different <br>areas in the boundaries and a polygon file, but I am not sure<br>that the existing format allows that, as it is optimized for the LocationHook.<br><br>Gerd<br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:07:24 +0100<br>> From: cdavilam@orangecorreo.es<br>> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] A few thoughts on non-rectangular tiles<br>> <br>> El 11/12/14 a las 11:20, GerdP escribió:<br>> > Hi Steve,<br>> ><br>> > If I got it right, we need these changes:<br>> > 1) an option to pass the polgon(s) to mkgmap.<br>> > I don't know which format is good for this. In splitter we use the OSM<br>> > (xml, o5m, pbf) format to pass named polygons (with --polygon-desc-file)<br>> > or the *.poly format (with --polygon-file ) from<br>> > osmosis which doesn't allow named polygons.<br>> *.poly files may contain polygon name before the list of coordinates. <br>> For example:<br>> |cuba||<br>> ||1||<br>> || -85.08 23.55||<br>> || -78.68 23.55||<br>> || -73.46 20.40||<br>> || -73.84 19.73||<br>> || -77.76 19.01||<br>> || -79.26 20.23||<br>> || -85.12 21.27||<br>> || -85.08 23.55||<br>> ||END||<br>> ||END|<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mkgmap-dev mailing list<br>> mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev<br></div> </div></body>
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