[mkgmap-dev] Polygonal tiles?

Fri Mar 6 22:06:58 GMT 2009

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Dermot McNally wrote:

> Am I right in thinking that supporting non-rectangular tiles will be the 
> only way to ensure that towns near national or regional borders can know 
> accurately in which country or region they are located?

While it might technically be a good approach now to assign attributes to 
towns via tiles, such information should actually be contained in the OSM 
database.

I was asking for polygonal tiles because I think its much nicer when 
administrative boundaries are respected. Nobody really wants to be 
assigned to a neighboring country by a cartographer. Garmin did a good job 
in Europe with the national borders, but unfortunately the countries' 
interiors just have these rectangular patterns.

-Wolfgang