[mkgmap-dev] Curious behaviour of map text

Fri Mar 29 12:51:57 GMT 2019

Hi

0x1e04 is a strange choice for an house number point. 0x1e00 is "State"
and has a big font and might not support sub-types

Ticker 

On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 13:32 +0100, DD8KQ wrote:
> Hi Gerd
> 
> as you suggested, i added the continue statement to the directive,
> but,
> its still not working properly. Without that line, i can see nearly
> at
> all relevant zoom-levels street and city names both on mapsource or
> my
> GPSMAP 276Cx, with that line, on MapSource the city names will only
> be
> displayed at lower zoom levels (let say starting at 1km, 1.5 km and
> above) but on device they still are not visible.
> 
> BTW, as the housenumbers are shown on the device with really big
> letters, i will forgot this option as it will make the maps on my
> device
> nearly unreadable :'(
> 
> 
> But anyway, its strange ...
> 
> Am 29.03.2019 um 06:18 schrieb Gerd Petermann:
> > Hi Manfred,
> > 
> > when you add that rule at the beginning I would expect that all
> > points which have the tag addr:housenumber are added as 0x1e04
> > and since you did not use continue you should not expect any other
> > details. Still, your rule should not change street names.
> > 
> > Gerd
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> > von Manfred Haiduk <manfred.haiduk at freenet.de>
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. März 2019 22:44
> > An: Development list for mkgmap
> > Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Curious behaviour of map text
> > 
> > Hi alllet say
> > 
> > i'm experimenting with housenumber display in my maps. To do this,
> > i
> > added in my point style file this statement :
> > 
> > addr:housenumber=* { set name='${addr:housenumber}' } [0x1e04
> > resolution
> > 24 ]
> > 
> > But if i do this, all other text is vanished, i.e street names,
> > village
> > names etc, only housenumbers are displayed both in map source and
> > on my
> > device.
> > 
> > Any idea whats going wrong ?
> > 
> > 
> > regards Manfred
> > 
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