[mkgmap-dev] patch to correct plazas in default style

Mon Mar 9 19:30:46 GMT 2009

Clinton Gladstone wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:
>> Yes, that's right, 0x13 is being used for buildings too. IIRC, 0x13 is
>> meant for "human-made" stuff but if we want to differentiate buildings
>> from plazas then I think we're back to using 0x17 (parks) which is
>> fine by me. What do you think?
> 
> I guess parks is better than buildings, because in many cases, a plaza
> is either surrounded by buildings (such as St. Peter's Square in
> Vatican City), or there is a building in the middle of the plaza (such
> as the Louvre's Pyramid). In these cases, the plaza would be
> indistinguishable from the buildings.
> 
> Tweekers can still modify the style file and customize a TYP file to
> their liking (as I have done), but I think 0x17 is the most sensible
> default.

Sounds good. A patch to change the default for plazas to 0x17 is attached.

Cheers, Ben
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