[mkgmap-dev] Finland with almost-working generate-sea

Wed Mar 10 12:32:39 GMT 2010

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela at iki.fi> wrote:

> If I include the Swedish, Russian and Estonian coastlines to reach the
> tile borders, then mkgmap will take forever to generate the sea. Maybe
> I should try with a grossly simplified coastline (just straight lines
> to the tile borders).

If, by "forever", you mean "about an hour", then yes. :-)

Last week, I generated a map of the entire Geofabrik Europe extract.
The coasts of Finland appeared to be correctly generated. This took
about 20 hours on my laptop though (memory seemed to be the main
bottleneck). The same for an Osmosis extract of the bounding box of
Germany takes a few hours. I would expect something similar for
Finland, even with the much more complex coastline.

Maybe you should just start your map generation and then do something
else away from your computer for an hour or two. ;-)

Cheers.