[mkgmap-dev] Mapsource crash

Wed Jan 6 21:08:03 GMT 2010

Hi Ralf,

> > Enable assertions - that may catch some overflow or other problem that
> > is causing a corrupt map to be generated.
> 
> This gives me this message:
> 
> NET 1 offset too large at (Leigraaf,
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/6890957)
> 
> Looks like what others reported in november. I must have hit some limit
> and will have to split some of my tiles.

Yes, the only way to avoid that problem at this time is to make the
tiles simpler.

> Sorry for the noise.

No problem.

> > Why anyone would use the development version of mkgmap (or even a
> > stable version) without having assertions enabled beats me.
> 
> Probably because:
> - the docs don't mention it
> - the wiki doesn't mention it
> - it worked so great without for the last 1.5 years :-)

Hmm, good reasons.

It's a great shame that we can't enable assertions by default.

Cheers,

Mark