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Fri Feb 11 22:16:42 GMT 2011

>> On 11/02/2011 20:59, WanMil wrote:
>>> I tried to compile a complete europe map. It failed with the following
>>> exception (sounds easy to fix...?-):
>>>
>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>>> at uk.me.parabola.imgfmt.app.mdr.Mdr23.sortRegions(Mdr23.java:54)
>>
>> Easy to stop the exception perhaps ;) but how is it getting to be null?
>> All regions should have one of those set in the previous method.
>>
>> Anyway I just compilled a complete UK extract and tried to upload
>> all the tiles and it failed with the usual error after a while. So a
>> complete Europe build might be a bit ambitious at this time.
>>
>> ..Steve
>>
> I think that happens in case the first region has an empty name "".
> Then the region is set to null in Mdr28.buildFromRegions(..). I try to
> change the lastName variable to another value. Maybe that works.
>
> WanMil

Initializing lastName with null should do (?).
The patch initializes lastName with null in all Mdr classes. This seems 
to be a c&p problem that might happen with all names in lot's of Mdr 
classes.

Don't know if an empty name should be contained in map?!

WanMil
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