[mkgmap-dev] Changing styles and TYP integrating

Tue Nov 16 10:55:54 GMT 2010

Putting your TYP file at the end of the mkgmap command should work, I think...

I have also some suggestions/comments to the default style:

Lines:

highway=pedestrian (roadtype 0x06) has the same line type as unclassified roads, why? Garmin has also a line type 0x0d [Pedestrian area] which is routable as well.
a suggestion could be to change this into 0x0d or the same as footway, 0x16
In my custom styles I use type 0x0d for footways, paths, pedestrian ways and they route fine
Line Type 0x16 can then be used for cycleways, which are now rendered the same as footways in the default style.

Other line types that are routable can be used as well to distinguish more type of highways that are rendered the same in the default map:
0x0e 0x0f 0x10 0x11 0x12 0x13

Think about bridges, tunnels, steps etc

Polygons:

add landuse=grass to landuse=meadow
add natural=heath [0x20 resolution 20]?
add natural=sand | surface=sand to natural=beach

I wrote earlier about a proposal to put some kind of standard TYP file to the default styles. The Mapnik ones from Lionel aka Petrovsk are suitable for this and he already give his permission to enhance it. Maybe this can be worked out and translated it into German, English etc

Thanks,
Minko