[mkgmap-dev] highway-symbol and name

Sun Oct 25 13:04:07 GMT 2009

On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:31, Ralf Reimann wrote:

> Toby Speight wrote:
>
> The above means:
> * If the highway has both 'ref' and 'name' tags, give it a name made  
> of
>  the 'ref' value in an oval box, followed by the 'name' value; else
>
> I understood it in this way, but it doesn't do this. I looked for a  
> lot of primaries and secondaries and all of them are named only by  
> there ref.

Are you doing this in MapSource or on your GPS unit? I noticed that  
MapSource will only display the first part of the name, which is used  
in the highway shield (for example B57 or B58), but when I view the  
same streets on my eTrex, cursoring over the area gives me the full  
name (B58 Weseler Strasse). (If this doesn't work for you, what GPS  
unit are you using?)

I strongly suspect that the MapSource display issue results from the  
"highway-symbol:hbox" part of the style, which inserts the graphical  
highway "shield" into the map. I have noted that other maps, produced  
by cgpsmapper, do not seem to have this limitation. It could be that  
we need to insert another "magic byte" into the name.

Cheers.

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