[mkgmap-dev] type/subtype of points and cities

Tue Nov 5 17:46:48 GMT 2019

Hi all, you may be able to take also a look at Mapsoure--> find 
Places--> City : filter 'Country'  type in 'D' --> it shows me for 
example /'DEU (Deutschland)/' and in a different spelling '/Deutschland 
(DEU//')/. , or/Spanien(ESP)/ and /ESP(Spanien)/.Why do I see 2 entries 
with different names for each country ? I assume, it comes from mdr. 
This phenomenon exists already since years. It seems for me senseless .
  regards thomas

Am 05.11.2019 um 17:49 schrieb Gerd Petermann:
> Hi Ticker,
>
> yes, mdr5 pointer can be one byte, but the mdr11 pointer seems to contain a flag byte. It seems that mkgmap always sets this flag, no idea why. There is a parameter isNew which is always true, this looks suspicious.
> I'll play with this tomorrow.
>
> Gerd
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. November 2019 17:22
> An: mkgmap development
> Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] type/subtype of points and cities
>
> Hi Gerd
>
> cityPtrSize exists twice in MdrDisplay.
>
> It is a global, based on the number of records on MDR5, and rounded up
> to 2. This is used by MDR11 as for the list of city offsets.
>
> Mdr5, the list of cities, has its own cityPtrSize from the magic number
> in the Mdr5 header. The extra check I put in was a message if this size
> wasn't 2 or 3, and I couldn't see a good way of outputting messages in
> the Displayer context.
>
> Otherwise I left this area alone
>
> Ticker
>
>

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