[mkgmap-dev] Overview map

Tue Aug 10 23:08:37 BST 2010

  On 8/10/2010 6:03 PM, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> On 10/08/10 21:11, Nakor wrote:
>> I have always wondered what was the osmmap.img for. BTW I do not think
>> it is packaged if you use the --nsis option.
> It is, it wouldn't work otherwise.
>
> you call it baseFilename and then you assign it to MAPNAME and then
> the overview map and tdb file are included via that name later in the file.
>
> baseFilename = args.get("overview-mapname", "osmmap");
> pw.format(Locale.ROOT, "!define MAPNAME \"%s\"\n", baseFilename);
> pw.format(Locale.ROOT, "  File \"${MAPNAME}.img\"\n");
>
Oh wait. Am I mixing up things here?

After mkgmap runs I have:

00000001.img
00000002.img
...
North_america.img
North_america.tdb
osmmap.img
osmmap.tdb

Which is the overview map? the North_america one the osmmap one?

BTW osmmap.img is quite small and does not seem to be packaged by NSIS.