[mkgmap-dev] Fun with splitter tile descriptions

Sat Sep 12 13:21:53 BST 2009

I can agree with your findings, it appears to be working pretty well for 
me here too. I still have a bit of code cleanup and testing to do before 
I check it in but hopefully everyone will be reasonably happy with the results. 
Of course it can always be fine tuned in the future anyway if so desired. 
In your particular case, using cities5000 instead might have caught those 
last remaining tiles?

Cheers,
Chris

>> The approach I'm currently looking at is using a geonames file (eg
>> cities15000.zip)
>> from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ to decide which
>> country and
>> city is the most predominant one in each tile.
CG> I tried this out on an extract of Europe. It worked pretty well; of
CG> the 234 tiles in my map, 5 had no entry in the cities15000 file.
CG> 
CG> Four of the tiles were in Italy (Largest centers according to the
CG> GeoNames Web service: Codroipo, Maniago, Tavagnacco, Cervignano del
CG> Friuli, ), and one was in Slovenia (Podhom).
CG> 
CG> This is good enough for my purposes.
CG> 
CG> Cheers.