[mkgmap-dev] Different routing results using osm vs osm.pbf

Tue Oct 19 22:22:18 BST 2010

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk>wrote:

>
> > Should the pbf format only be used as input for the splitter?
> > Or is the splitter not needed anymore as we move onto osm.pbf??
>
> Well mkgmap can now read .pbf, but it doesn't do any splitting, so if
> the file is large enough you still need to split it. Splitter will have
> to produce .pbf output (which it doesn't yet?) for the mkgmap support to
> be particularly useful.
>

There's a branch in the splitter repository that supports reading pbf files,
along with significant improvements in scalability and performance, but it
still generates *.osm.gz files for output.

Scott
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/attachments/20101019/c6684643/attachment.html 