[mkgmap-dev] Exits / Service areas improvement

Thu Jun 11 16:44:44 BST 2020

Hi Gerd

I looked through LinkDestinationHook early on and concluded that all of
the info needed was almost gathered by HighwayHook and just needed to
include a few more tag values. Later, when I generalized it a bit more,
there were more similarities, but it still seemed better to confine it
to HighwayHooks.

Ticker

On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 12:41 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Ticker,
> 
> did not try it yet. I wonder why the code for the --process-exits
> (LinkDestinationHook) is not changed by your patch.
> 
> Gerd
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020 14:27
> An: mkgmap development
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Exits / Service areas improvement
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've made some improvements to "Exits" handling.
> 
> The existing logic looked for tags:
>  exit:road_ref - the highway the exit/services is on
>  exit:to - the destination for the exit
>  exit:facilities - what is available at the services
> 
> These don't exist in OSM data. There is some processing in mkgmap to
> set exit:road_ref in simple circumstances. Without this being set,
> Exits don't work.
> 
> Changes in this patch:
> 
> - set exit:road_ref for highway=rest_area as well as
> motorway_junction
> and services.
> 
> - do the above for motorroad, trunk and primary highways as well as
> motorways.
> 
> - for services and rest_area, if option --link-pois-to-ways is set,
> handle "Ways" in a similar manner to "Nodes".
> 
> - allow the point/area in above to be slightly off the road.
> 
> - improve the efficiency of the setting of exit:road_ref for
> motorway_junction.
> 
> - Change the typCode of motorway junction from 0x2100 (Exit with
> Services) to 0x2000 (Exit without Services) and only do if
> exit:road_ref is set. Also attempt to set exit:to from standard OSM
> tags exit_to or destination.
> 
> - Change the typCode of services from 0x210f (see above) to 0x230f
> (Exit Service Area), do even of generated from polygon, set some
> facilities and show at a lower resolution.
> 
> - correct the allowable ranges of the different POI subtypes.
> 
> My eTrex HCx supports "Find > Exits" and shows the facility details.
> However the "Select Map" option for this defaults to "Use Best Maps"
> and this always chooses the inbuilt Basemap, even when disabled.
> Selecting the mkgmap generated map shows the junctions and services
> along the major road that the cursor is nearest. Stupidly, the map
> selection lists the tiles rather than the complete map, naming each
> tile as the --series-name, which is the same for all of them!
> 
> There are stupidities with most aspect of Exits definitions and
> device
> handling of it and I can see why support seems to have been dropped
> on
> more modern devices, but maybe it works better on other devices,
> specifically car navigation systems.
> 
> Ticker
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