[mkgmap-dev] Problem with too large shields on streets with ref andname

Sun Sep 6 13:14:37 BST 2015

Hi Marcio

i had the same idea to get a workaround, but maybe there is another, possibly 
better, way to do this.

BTW: You can remove remove the first '$ {ref | highway-symbol: hbox' |'  the 
second is the same one ;-)

Bernd

Am Sonntag, 6. September 2015, 09:03:31 schrieb thundercel at gpsinfo.com.br:
> Hi Bernd,
> our group in Brazil found that in all Garmin Nuvis this problem to print the
> REF and NAME in the hbox, box or oval, using the default styles. We are not
> programmers and we do not know the correct method,, but solved the problem
> excluding the $ {name} in the line: highway = trunk {name '$ {ref |
> highway-symbol: hbox} $ {name}' | '$ {ref | highway-symbol: hbox}' | '$
> {name}'; addlabel '$ {name} ({$ ref})'}
> 
> We proceed as follows:
> 
> highway = trunk
> {
> name '$ {ref | highway-symbol: hbox' |
>   '$ {ref | highway-symbol: hbox}' |
>   '$ {name}';
> addlabel '$ {name} ({$ ref})'
>   }
> 
> We do so for highways motorway, primary and secondary.
> 
> []s
> Marcio