[mkgmap-dev] Marko is maintaining the mkgmap default style file

Mon Dec 7 08:06:01 GMT 2009

Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:17:50AM +0000, svn commit wrote:
>> Version 1418 was commited by marko on 2009-12-07 07:17:50 +0000 (Mon, 07 Dec 2009) 
>>
>> Bus and rail stops with a lit shelter.
> 
> This is my first direct commit to the mkgmap source repository.
> Steve returned from vacation and granted me commit access to the
> mkgmap svn repository.
> 
> I will try to be somewhat conservative with changes to the default style.
> I think that the default style should work with all devices and without
> a TYP file.  Later on, if we include TYP files in mkgmap styles, we could
> come up with a little fancier style.  Even there, I would not use tricks
> that can considerably slow down the map display, such as duplicating
> ways to multiple layers for additional line styles.

Is the slow-down really that bad?  I have a fairly complicated map which 
  uses TYP files to define a lot of additional polygons and overlays and 
my GPS can update the screen no problem even when travelling in a car at 
70 mph.  For pedestrians or cyclists there would be no problem 
whatsoever.  Perhaps older GPS units have much slower CPUs?

> 
> In the short term, I will test the amenity=embassy patch that was posted
> some weeks ago.  I would also like to commit the following, to display
> speed bumps, humps and chicanes as white circles on the road at zoom levels
> 120m or closer:
> 
> +traffic_calming=* [0x6614 resolution 21]
> 
> This may be a little misleading, because the same code is used for
> natural=rock.  Besides, the Finnish style of Garmin displays it as
> "kari", which is the word for an underwater rock, something that
> marine users need to worry about.
> 
> If nobody objects to the traffic_calming change, I shall commit it
> tomorrow.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Marko
> ________________________

I'm in two minds about the traffic calming patch.  It's of no particular 
use for pedestrians, and will just clog up the map.  And whilst it would 
be useful for road users, so would traffic signals, which aren't 
currently showing up in the default style (or at least, they weren't 
last time I checked).

This is why I think we should have a default style repository - one for 
cyclists, one for pedestrians and one for motorists.

Then an additional repository where anyone can contribute their own 
styles/TYP files, so that the community can learn what tricks, display 
customisations etc are possible.

:)

Charlie