[mkgmap-dev] New branch for default typ file

Mon Nov 26 10:33:59 GMT 2018

Hi Gerd

Should we start dist/examples/TYPs/* as per my email on 19-Nov?

Ticker 

On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 12:44 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > I suspect there will be a few TYP files for different usages.
> 
> perhaps, but as I understand it there can be a lot of
> include/not-include in styles, so I see TYP files being different as
> a
> high-level difference, within which there can be maps built for
> different reasons.   And I would hope there would be fewer TYP files,
> just because things are confusing enough.
> 
> > I propose that they should be handled like the styles, where they
> > are
> > gathered in a directory resources/TYPs and the build process copies
> > then to dist/examples/TYPs
> > 
> > I don't think a new branch is necessary, as there is nothing in the
> > system at the moment.
> > 
> > I'd like to submit my most basic TYPfile and attach the file and
> > patch.
> > This, along with option --order-by-decreasing-area, has been
> > adequate
> > for me for a few years (but I have problems with my new Etrex 30x
> > not
> > showing some line types)
> 
> That sounds fine to me.  I would hope that the TYP file is not
> actually
> checked in, but the source code that the mkgmap TYP compiler users,
> so
> it can be edited easily.