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

Sun Feb 7 18:11:20 GMT 2010

Hi Chris,

> 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).

Using a small OSM file that contained the bounds tag would be fine
for my purposes.

> 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.

OK.

Thanks,

Mark