[mkgmap-dev] Options

Sun Apr 5 20:59:58 BST 2015

Hi Gerd

> I'd like to change some defaults.
>
> My understanding so far is that most people want
> a routable map with address search and housenumber search.
>
> So, I think the following options should be on by default:
> --route
> --net
> --index
> --housenumbers
> --x-split-name-index
> --link-pois-to-ways
> --drive-on=detect

Yes, there was a discussion some time ago where we agreed to
change many things.
The document at : 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/dev/option-review
is not up to date with that discussion but just go ahead and do
anything that you still agree with on that list.

(I can't log in to the wiki at the moment, but --lower-case is
more useful now since modern devices support it, --net is OK to
keep if it works and for some of the options that I was unsure of
why they were needed, people told me that they were useful etc.)

> @Steve:
> I tried to implement this but found that some unit tests fail, e.g.
> TdbTest fails when I just add --net to the default options.
> Can you have a look at this, please?

OK I will take a look.

But does it work?  I thought there was a problem that was difficult to
fix for the same reason that you alluded to in another post today
in that some decisions are made in the wrong place.
But that was a long time ago, perhaps things are better now.

..Steve