[mkgmap-dev] Wrong "Object Class" displayed in Mapsource

Wed Apr 10 17:05:29 BST 2013

Hi Michael,

The problem regarding the change between 0x4b and 0x0b was
in mkgmap routines that read the img file, none of them would 
explain what you see. 
Maybe Mapsource makes a similar error?

Gerd

> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:50:42 +0200
> From: email at mipri.de
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] Wrong "Object Class" displayed in Mapsource
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am creating my own map with mkgmap and am using it on an eTrex Vista 
> HCx and with Mapsource.
> 
> In Mapsource, when the mouse pointer is moved over an object (like a 
> road, a building or another POI) and the right mouse button is pressed, 
> a context menu appears listing anything under the pointer.
> 
> If there is no other polygon (like forest, residential, ...) than the 
> "empty" background under the mouse pointer, Mapsource lists the 
> background as "Hospital". Please see
> http://www.mipri.de/dl/background.png for an example.
> "Kartenmerkmal - Straße" is correct, but "Krankenhaus - Unbekanntes 
> Gebiet" ("Hospital - Unknown area") is not.
> 
> In my TYP file I am using 0x4b for the background, while my style (like 
> the default style) is assigning 0x0b to hospitals. I don't know if there 
> is any relation, but some days ago Gerd wrote:
> 
>  > the code changed the background type 0x4b to 0x0b. I find this
>  > also in the trunk version and in the current code of the display
>  > tool, so I am not sure why this happens.
> 
> Could it have to do with this?
> 
> 
> There are other cases where the labels in Mapsource are wrong:
> 
> If I am putting the mouse over a "real" hospital, the building gets 
> listed as "Marine", see http://www.mipri.de/dl/hospital.png. In this 
> case "Krankenhaus - Chirurgische Klinik" is correct,
> "Marine - Chrirurgische Klinik" is not.
> 
> Something similar happens with forests, but only if there is no "wood" 
> key defined. In this case, they are listed as "Autoservices - Wald" 
> ("Car repair - Forest") as in http://www.mipri.de/dl/wood.png.
> 
> The examples were taken near the University of Ulm, Germany, but it 
> could be elsewhere. The mouse pointer did not get captured in my 
> screenshots, it was at the position in the upper left corner of the 
> popup menu.
> 
> These wrong labels seem to appear only in Mapsource, I did not see them 
> on my GPS yet.
> 
> Any ideas what could be going wrong here?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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