[mkgmap-dev] documentation improvement

Wed Apr 8 13:52:12 BST 2020

Hi Mike

Yes, that's fine

Ticker

On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 13:08 +0100, Mike Baggaley wrote:
> Hi Ticker, sorry, I misread your previous email - I thought you were
> suggesting it should have been left out - I had included "Different
> GPS devices, MapSource, Basecamp and QLandkarte handle descriptions
> inconsistently. Some display the description when selecting maps,
> others use the family name" and thought this covered the point.
> However, I now realise you were referring to selection of tiles. I've
> added "or tiles" after "when selecting maps", and also replaced the
> arc second symbols. Is that better?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ticker Berkin [mailto:rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk] 
> Sent: 08 April 2020 09:55
> To: Development list for mkgmap <mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] documentation improvement
> 
> Hi Mike
> 
> I try to put in slight variants of the overall area description into:
>  --family-name
>  gmapsupp --description
>  --series-name
> and these occur in various places on devices and basecamp (--gmapi)
> I set:
>  --area-name
>  --x-map-set-name
> to variants of my name, and these also occur here and there.
> 
> My eTrex HCx allows me to disable/enable tiles within the gmapsupp on
> an individual basis and this is the only use I've ever seen of the
> tile
> description, which is why I think a mention of it should be left in
> 
> Ticker
> 
> On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 09:37 +0100, Mike Baggaley wrote:
> > Hi Ticker, selection by description was mentioned to me by Gerd and
> > explains something I'd noticed in BaseCamp. If I have the same map
> > installed on my PC and on a memory card plugged into it, in the
> > Maps
> > menu I see "Great Britain" for the installed map and "Great Britain
> > map" for the one on the card - I have --family-name="Great Britain"
> > and --description="Great Britain map" in my command line.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ticker Berkin [mailto:rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk] 
> > Sent: 08 April 2020 09:25
> > To: Development list for mkgmap <mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] documentation improvement
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'll have a look and try and work out if the web version of options
> > is
> > generated using the same software as the style manual, but, given
> > there
> > are 2 unconnected processors being used to transform options.txt,
> > I'd
> > recommend just replacing the '' with it spelt out.
> > 
> > The patch looks fine to me as well, but I'd have left in the bit
> > about
> > tile selection by --description as this is the only usage of the
> > tile
> > description that I've ever come across.
> > 
> > Ticker
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 08:08 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> > > Hi Mike,
> > > 
> > > reg. 1 arc second or 1'' : I have no idea how to change the HTML
> > > creation process. My understanding is that we have to use some
> > > escape
> > > characters in options.txt and maybe some additional code in
> > > OptionsBuilder.java to remove those escape characters.
> > > @Ticker: Can you look at that?
> > > 
> > > Besides that the patch options3.txt.patch looks good to me.
> > > 
> > > Gerd