[mkgmap-dev] Unusable maps generated from geofabrik-europe

Wed May 5 00:09:06 BST 2010

>> El 02/05/10 20:51, Felix Hartmann escribió:
>> 
>> problem. Any attempt to use lower max-nodes resulted in the following
>> error:
>> Splitting nodes into areas containing a maximum of 150.000 nodes
>> each...
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
>> at
>> uk.me.parabola.splitter.DensityMap.xToLon(DensityMap.java:205)
>
> This particular one is a bug in the splitter. I think what's happening
> is that even though we've split down to the smallest area possible,
> there's still more than 150,000 nodes in that area so the splitter
> recurses infinitely and blows the stack. I *thought* I'd added a check
> for that but I guess not... I'll take a look. About the best I'd be
> able to do in that situation is to print an error and still create an
> area that contains more than --max-nodes.

I just checked in a fix for this (r107) that should prevent the StackOverflowError. 
Instead you should now just see a warning that the area contains more than 
--max-nodes but can't be split any further.