[mkgmap-dev] route recalculation senstivity bug found

Sat Jun 13 19:26:03 BST 2009

Hi Felix,

> I found out the problem associated to route recalculation not working 
> (well working but only far too late). We currently set the TRE header at 
> 1,3,17 IF we change this over to 1,4,23 route recalculation kicks in at 
> around 25-30m instead of 300-400 (as it happens with 1,3,17 we currently 
> use) on my Vista HCx.
> 
> I don't know how this is set because the value introduced with the patch 
> about this seems to be organized differently. I changed this with 
> gmaptool and now it works very well. Would be great if these values 
> could be set directly by mkgmap.

With my vista hcx and using the current value of 0x110301, the route
recalculates if I go off course by no more than about 25m. I believe
other people are also getting similar results. Perhaps people could
confirm that?

Cheers,

Mark