[mkgmap-dev] Non-rectangular tiles

Thu Nov 27 08:37:07 GMT 2014

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 07:27:12AM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 27, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>
>> I was meaning to write a message about this for a while and since the 
>> thread for drive-on-left/right has brought this up already today and 
>> since it is a mkgmap birthday (8 years!) this might be a good time to 
>> set the ball rolling.
>
>Happy Birthday mkgmap! And a big thanks to all developer who made this 
>possible, mkgmap and the OSM maps for GARMIN are really a big plus for 
>me.

+1. While I have gone a little inactive, mkgmap is still useful. The USB 
data transfers on my Edge 705 died some years ago, so I cannot use it 
for mapping. (But I do not update OSM that much either, given that it 
already is good enough for me.) I have been using OsmAnd on a 
smartphone. In some ways, the old Garmin is still better.

>> I am sure that it can be done, but it is a large task and will need
>> more than one person working on it.  If there is any interest I shall
>> outline my thoughts tomorrow.
>
>I would be very interested in this.

Me too. It would be nice to have properly shaped polygon around the map 
of Finland that I still update every now and then.

	Marko