[mkgmap-dev] Re : --generate-sea for Australia?

Sun Feb 7 17:20:58 GMT 2010

MB> I did submit a request for the splitter to support a bounding box
MB> option that would bound the outer edge of the tiles (rounded
MB> appropriately) but Chris didn't seem keen about that. Personally, I
MB> think it would be useful.

Well it wasn't so much that I wasn't keen, just that at the time I wasn't 
sure why you wanted it and was too lazy to implement it at the time :)  There's 
actually another reason - there's a bug I accidentally introduced to the 
splitter a while back which is related. Since I added support for the bounding 
box tag, the splitter doesn't work correctly if there are multiple osm files 
given as input because only points inside the first file's bounding box are 
considered for splitting. Once I fix that it should be easy to add support 
for a --bound parameter (or you could simulate the same thing by supplying 
an additional osm file that only contains a <bounds/> tag).

Currently I'm working on adding support for nested relations, including relations 
that are forward referenced. I thought it wasn't going to be too difficult 
but it's proving a bit trickier than I thought. Once that's done I'll look 
at fixing the above plus keeping whole multipolygon relations.

Chris