[mkgmap-dev] default style improvements

Thu Jan 3 10:59:30 GMT 2019

Hi Gerd

Do you want me to do another version of this patch before you commit
it?

I'd like to get on with the next set of changes; minor things like
removing horse= can be done with these.

Regards
Ticker  

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 10:54 +0000, Ticker Berkin wrote:
> Hi Gerd
> 
> My rationale was to see what highway= tags from various european
> countries the default style didn't handle and hence generated:
> 
> [0x07 road_class=0 road_speed=0 resolution 23]
> 
> and then decide to:
> 
> a) explicitly ignore.
> b) handle as if they were a well defined highway type,
>    with appropriate access control.
> c) generate a new line type, with routing as appropriate.
> d) allow mop-up as above.
> 
> I removed escape/emergency_bay because I didn't think they added
> anything useful to routing or the resultant map.
> 
> footpath/foot looked like they should be footway or path, but if you
> think they should be ignored, I have no problem with that.
> 
> What remained after this exercise was a few rubbish tags and lots of
> highway={real name of street} and I'd rather have these on my map
> 
> The {add horse=xxx} I just changed a bit to be in keeping with what
> was
> there already but happy to delete it.
> 
> Ticker
> 
> On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 09:18 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> > Hi Ticker,
> > 
> > I think it is not a good idea to remove  highway=escape or
> > highway=emergency_bay. The last time I looked at them most where
> > correctly mapped.
> > I'd also remove horse=yes or horse=no unless you want evaluate that
> > somewhere in the style. Don't know why it is in the current default
> > style.
> > There is no code in mkgmap to evaluate it.
> > 
> > Reg. rules like
> > highway=footpath | highway=foot {set highway=footway}  # fix common
> > bad tagging
> > I think we don't need them. Most of those ways are mapped by HOT
> > projects, it is very likely that they are not connected or self
> > intersecting etc.
> > I'd rather remove the mop up rule instead of adding a lot of "try
> > to
> > guess better" rules.
> > 
> > Gerd