[mkgmap-dev] Can you set background colour in a TYP file?

Sun Nov 1 11:55:20 GMT 2009

Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
> Charlie Ferrero wrote:
> 
>> Did you ever get to the bottom of this?  I have also had zero success in 
>> getting a white background.  I've tried setting both 0x4b and 0x4a 
>> polygons to white and neither has an effect.
> 
> In the TYP file for my topo map Germany I set 0x4b (Background coverage)
> and 0x10d01 (Basemap coverage area) to white and it works fine on my
> eTrex and in mapsource. Both have the lowest drawing level.
> 
> You can get the typ and the mkgmap style here:
> http://www.kleineisel.de/blogs/index.php/osmmap/2009/09/17/how-to-make-a-topographic-map
Thanks Ralf,

Interestingly, using your style file and TYP file results in the "NET 1 
offset too large error" that people have been reporting recently.  Using 
my style file and TYP file does not result in an error.

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Charlie