[mkgmap-dev] dent in street and bounds problem

Mon Feb 15 17:26:00 GMT 2010

Hello Torsten,

> Mark Burton schrieb am 14.02.2010 23:15:
> > How about: the RHS of the dent is S of the junction with Bruchweg
> > because the small footway has been completely removed by the
> > remove-short-arcs option and so the node at the N end of that footway
> > has been merged into the node at the S end of the footway which is why
> > the way ends up kinked to the S.
> 
> I haven't noticed this, but your right: The footway is misisng in the garmin map.
> 
> But is this not a much bigger problem? Now in the Garmin map two roads are
> connected, which are not connected in the OSM data. I think the
> remove-short-arcs option mustn't remove complete elements, because the routing
> is now broken.
> And such a case is not so exceptional: Here it is quite common, that an end of a
> road is closed for vehicle traffic or declared as oneway for reducing the
> traffic in residential areas.

Yes, that's not ideal is it. I will add it to the list of bugs that I
need to fix.

Cheers,

Mark