I used a Lambertus generated map for a portion of spain during a recent travel, and I’ve been surprised to have speed camera warning messages poping-up on my Legend HCx.
Is this an intentionnal feature of the way these maps are generated, and if yes, what mkgmap commands are used to obtain this result?
I’ve had more reports of people who had problems zooming in, but when I try the same map on my Vista install the problem always disappears when zooming in and out a few times. It seems random and never persistent. Have you tried to clear the map cache (hit ctrl+g twice)?
Hey that’s cool, although I never heard of this or experienced this before… You’re sure that you haven’t installed a POI list of speedcams along with the map?
Oops, I checked the .csv file delivered together the POI file I was using and found that it covered not only France (as I needed) but also Spain. Something I wasn’t aware of.
Sorry we are getting the threads a bit mixed up here.
@ligfietser
I tried GmapTool, and it certainly allowed me to change the mapset name. I can now see on the GPS which maps I have loaded, which is a step forweard. However, the OSMs are still grouped together under “family name”, which I haven’t been able to change. This means that I can’t enable/disable OSMs individually - it’s all or nothing.
We’re getting closer, but not quite there. Any more help would be very welcome.
I have a problem creating a custom set. I first tried the prebuild Netherlands map, wich works perfectly. Then, in view of an upcoming travel I constructed a set of the Netherlands + UK and Ireland with a little bit of Belgium. The result of this construction has white areas in Mapsource, it’s like Mapsource sees that I requested them, but they have no content. This includes my hometown area.
Areas I did not request have the generic “no maps” color.
Trying the gmapsupp.img I can see the information missing at my location as well.
Thinking it might be due to user error I repeated the process with a slightly larger area, but the white areas remain.
Maybe this has something to do with parts build on another server not getting assembled correctly into the end-product, or is there some step in the process I missed?
The custom map server version is now downgraded to r1867. Can you try a small test?
BTW, I’m preparing to add the Mapnik TYP file from Ligfietser as a user choice on a third sponsored server, but I haven’t gotten PHP scripting to work properly on that server yet. It’s really coming but it needs a bit more patience.
For me, also the prebuild Netherlands map is missing tiles. The missing tiles are the ones that cannot be downloaded directly from the site. For example:
It appears that some tiles are missing on both servers. I’m not sure yet if they are simply not uploaded or that the tiles haven’t been generated, something that I will find out when I get home this evening. Till then the map generation is disabled to prevent further confusion.
Thank you, that’s very kind. The problem I’m having on the newest server is not the coding but the restrictions of the operating system (i.e. the script is not allowed to call Java to run Mkgmap, etc.).
Currently, there isn’t much coding to do really. Adding a selectable TYP file is prepared already (needs testing only) and I don’t have any specific new ideas (hint! hint!).
Which mkgmap version are you using with the typ file? They have changed some lines in the default style so I’m not sure if this typ file is up to date.
It could be whatever you advise, but if the new bits in the default stylesheet are stable then I would like to use the latest one (and allow for future updates).
Alright, I’ll try to do that. I’m not a native English speaker though, so it’s possible that I don’t express the options succinct enough. And, ofcourse, there is the additional caveat that none of the countries are available for download at the time of each new map release.
Additionally, the need for users to download countries as much as possible has been alleviated by the new servers as well.
PS. The ‘gaps in the map’ problem was indeed caused by missing tiles on the servers. Apparently something went wrong during upload with scp (I suspect overloading my server at home with other jobs :p).
Cool, so instead of focussing on getting the third server functional, I will now focus on getting this integrated on the country server as that one has the space to host (at least) two different maps for each country.