[mkgmap-dev] New splitter build for pbf format

Sat Jan 29 02:25:59 GMT 2011

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, WanMil <wmgcnfg at web.de> wrote:
>> Hi
>
> Anyhow here are my wishes to the ongoing splitter development (don't
> know if this is a good place?):

I'm not likely to have time for splitter development for a while. I'm
putting my OSM work into implementing a new planet format.

> * Apply the useful output-dir patch to the pbf branch

If you send me a cleanly applying patch, I'll put it on the
crosby_integration branch.

> * Output format pbf (most wanted - where can we start to implement?)

If you're interested in doing it, I'd suggest modelling from the
osmosis code. To my knowledge osmosis has the only implementation of a
pbf writer.

> * The output tiles should fill the complete bounding box of the input
> file. Sometimes it happens that areas without any data are not covered
> by the tile bounds. Example:
> http://dev.openstreetmap.de/aio/tiles/?zoom=7&lat=46.01815&lon=-3.47465&layers=B000000FFTFFFFF
> shows the tiles of the All-in-One-Map. On the left, top and right of
> tile 66210071 there are free areas that are not covered by a tile. So in
> the generated map there is a hole instead of sea.

Ah, Try the --no-trim option.

Scott