[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r868: Implement routing for .osm input files.

Thu Feb 12 01:35:37 GMT 2009

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mark Burton <markb at ordern.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I tried the latest snapshot:
>>
>> mkgmap-latest.tar.gz  Feb 11  01:41   mkgmap-latest.tar.gz
>>
>> And tested in my Garmin, I generated the img with this:
>>
>> java -Xmx512m -jar mkgmap.jar --latin1 --gmapsupp --route philippines.osm
>>
>> The file is 4.5 MB, my previous routable map from mkgmap-route-r806 is 8.5 MB.
>>
>> The city search is working but cities have the following label:
>> i.e. Las Pinas, GBR
>>
>> AFAIK GBR is for Great Britain
>>
>> The routing defaults to the Garmin supplied map and not the OSM mkgmap output.
>>
>> Any idea why?
>
> OK - 2 things:
>
> 1 - the OSM routing is not yet in the main SVN trunk so it won't be in the
> snapshot file. You need to check out the nod branch from the SVN repository.
>
> 2 - to avoid the GBR, you need to give a --country-abbr="???" option.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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Thanks!  Now it's OK.  Will test them soon.  As posted by others, the
file is a little bit smaller (from 8.4 MB to just 8.0 MB)

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maning
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