[mkgmap-dev] Key "motorcar"

Sun Feb 21 11:08:24 GMT 2016

Thanks, Gerd. I had missed seeing the "add" in those rules. Now I
understand.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Gerd Petermann <
gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dave Swarthout wrote
> > I ask because I am confused by line 29, where it seems my assumption is
> > reversed because the value for motor_vehicle is being transferred to the
> > motorcar tag :
> >
> > Line 29: motor_vehicle=*      { add motorcar='${motor_vehicle}'; add
> > goods='${motor_vehicle}'; add hgv='${motor_vehicle}'; add
> > psv='${motor_vehicle}'; add emergency='${motor_vehicle}'; }
> >
> > And also this comment:
> >
> > Line 46: # Therefore we have to choose one vehicle type - and the winner
> > is: motorcar
> >
> > After which access is set for a range of situations all involving the
> term
> > "motorcar"
> >
> > Can someone take a few minutes to explain these rules?
>
> The idea is simple , if motor_vehicle=* is used and motorcar is not
> set,then
> set motorcar=* to the same value. Note that the action is add, not set.
>
> The line 46 is preceeded by this:
> # throughroute cannot be handled differently for different vehicle types
>
> It means that the Garmin format has only one bit that means "allow no
> through route"
> So, if we find motorcar=destination we set the flag.
> If I got that right, the flag is ignored when you select a bicycle as
> vehicle when routing with
> Garmin software, so the solution seems to be ok for me. One who creates a
> map for trucks
> should change this rule.
>
> Gerd
>
>
>
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