Hi from downunder and thanks for all the great work.
Will the ‘pre-defined country’ download feature become enabled again?
Are the country boundaries based on the existing auto split tiles, or a more accurate country defined tile system?
Yes, the idea is to automatically generate a list of tiles that cover a country based on country polygons and the tiles that have been generated during each update. But I haven’t had much time to work on this. Someone already has provided some code for this though.
Don’t expect the automatically generated tiling system to adhere to sea or country borders anytime soon (maybe never, but it depends on how the Splitter tool develops in the future). The tiles will be spread ‘randomly’ across the globe as they are now. I know some people would like the tiles to ‘hug’ country borders, but I couldn’t care less about such a feature. If anyone want’s that kind of map then they’ll have to look elsewhere.
Hi Lambertus,
would it be possible to include the tdb file into the gmapsupp.zip file?
This would enable it for me to open the file with QLandkarte on linux.
Regards,
Johann
I’m having an issue the OSM map. It was fine until a month or two ago (early December?).
I have Garmin Colorado 300.
When I have the OSM map loaded, I need to turn off the DEM basemap, else I cannot see any geocaches (.gpx file) or my own POIs (loaded with the Garmin POI loader).
If I turn off or remove the OSM map, I can see geocaches and my POIs fine with the DEM basemap turned on or not.
Questionmarks in Mongolia. They appear only when boundaries are involved. I see them with GPSmapEdit in Mongolia and the Russian Federation. I do not know where they come from. (A 60Cx shows them also)
Way 41231425 is the purple line here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=46.5767618020614&lon=97.2427368164063&zoom=10
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/41231425
name = Border Govi-Altai - Zavkhan
It is part of two relations.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/270057
name:en = Zavkhan
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/270054
name:en = Govi-Altai
These three items have not been edited since september so I expect them to show up ok.
All three have a name or name:en with english text.(It has nothing to do with transliteration)
Where do these questionmarks come from?
Are you using the mkgmap default style? The relations style file was changed recently to add complex (and imho, ugly) labels. Try removing these lines from the relations style file and see if this removes the ???.
This question goes to Lambertus.
I post here because the used tile comes from his site. But thanks for the suggestion…
Not me. Today I combined some code which I use in my splitter to split osm data according areas defined by .gpx files or tileareas as defined in your world.klm file. A list like following comes out:
albania
63240520.IT-Napoli
63240538.RO-Bucuresti
63240536.MK-Skopje
luxemburg
63240479.DE-Trier
63240468.BE-Charleroi
macedonia
63240536.MK-Skopje
63240538.RO-Bucuresti
63240537.GR-Thessaloniki
moldavie
63240543.UA-Kiev
63240539.UA-Khmel’nyts’kyy
63240542.TR-Istanbul
mongolia
63240569.CN-Beijing
63240566.KZ-Almaty
nederland
63240477.NL-Amsterdam
63240476.GB-Norwich
63240472.NL-Rotterdam
63240471.GB-Southend-on-Sea
63240467.FR-Lille
63240469.BE-Brussels
63240473.NL-Eindhoven
63240470.NL-Maastricht
63240485.DE-Monchengladbach
63240468.BE-Charleroi
63240483.DE-Aachen
63240497.NL-Nijmegen
63240499.NL-Almelo
63240502.NL-Groningen
63240503.DE-Bremen
63240478.NL-Leeuwarden
nepal
63240240.BD-Dhaka
vietnam
63240241.TH-Bangkok
63240242.VN-Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh
63240243.HK-Hong Kong
I could adapt the output to your needs if you see a use for it.
Ha ha. Oversaw something. Not all tiles are listed. 63240498 is not listed as it’s square is inside the nederland.gpx. Only tiles are listed which contain ‘border’. But I could add some code though…
I could do that, but I also create a zip specifically form QLandkarte: osm_routable_tiles.zip. Just wondering: Why are you using the gmapsupp.zip and not the tiles.zip?
Sorry, I have no clue about the cause. I regularly update to the latest Mkgmap though, which might fix but also introduce errors now and then.
Bummer, I don’t want to change anything in the default stylesheet. I hoped that the default stylesheet is some generic sheet that produces usable maps for any application…
Cool, well, it does somewhat the same as the code I already received. What I’m looking for is an XML or JSON file with that information based on e.g. country poly definitions like the ones from Cloudmade. That way new countries could be added quickly and it’s easy to generate the resulting XML and JSON file on each map update.
My code can handle a country poygon like netherlands.poly too. Does not mind if the boundary of a country is defined in a .gpx or .poly. You can add both types at the same time. So adding a country is easy.
But : how should the produced xml file look like? (I do not know JSON files). Like:
63455666,12345678,89765456You can get it as you like.
Nice 
There are lots of ways how you can express that information in XML. I would like the one that is easiest to parse in OpenLayers, but I’m not sure which is…
netherlands
63455666
12345678
89765456
or
netherlands
63455666
12345678
89765456
In JSON this could be
var countries = [
{ “name” : “netherlands”, “tiles” : [ “63455666”, “12345678”, “89765456”]},
{ “name” : “belgium”, “tiles” : [ “63455666”, “12345678”, “89765456”]}
];
Ok. It outputs now a file in the second xml format. It creates also a file in JSON format.
Consider it done if you want to use it for your site. What should it’s name be?
Wow, that’s quick!
I’m pondering on a catchy name, but my imagination is not very active atm. Perhaps matchit (as in match-it, as in match poly lines with area definitions) in line with translit… 
mad sh*t
Use: place matchit in a directory at choice. Create a subdirectory named Countries and fill it with .poly and/or .gpx country polygons.
./matchit ./world.kml
Any preferene for hardbaked output file names or would you use second parameter for it or all without parameters (assuming world.kml in same directory)?
LOL 
Perfect. Is the subdir name case sensitive? (better not)
Parameters are preferred, as the toolchain evolves. So I’d favor an input file and an output filename parameter. The matchit program will not be in the same directory where the input and output files should be.
It will be case sensitive. But if you want a lowercase ‘countries’ its ok.
It can output two files at once but I will change that.
What about:
./matchit iinputfilename outputfilename
The inputfilename is assumed to be a file like world.kml
If there is ‘xml’ (lowercase) somewhere in in the outputfilename it will create the xml format. Else the json format.
Sounds good to me.
Lowercase countries directory.
If (in a GUI) a file world.kml is dropped on matchit or (in a console window) is typed:
./matchit world.km
two files are created in the same directory as world.kml
world.kml.matched.xml
world.kml.matched.json
if you type
./matchit inputfilename outputfilenam
only one.l (If there is ‘xml’ (lowercase) somewhere in in the outputfilename it will create the xml format. Else the json format.)
matchit sent
Thank you, I’ll start testing it and adapt the website to accept the country definitions.
Edit:
I’ve started working on the website. One of the changes is a new method of loading the tile definition KML file which dramatically reduces the loading time (13 seconds for the current version vs 1-2 seconds for the new dev version). I do seem to run into a bug in OpenLayers where the style of vector feature is lost on zooming (so you can’t see which tiles you’ve selected once you zoom in or out). I hope to be able to work around this.
Greencaps, I do have another feature request for matchit: Can the country polys be placed in subdirectories who’s name is also used in the resulting XML (You can drop JSON support, I don’t think I’ll be using it)?
e.g. countries/Europe/Netherlands.poly
translates into:
(the tile name tag could be filled in some other day (each tile has a name according to the biggest city it contains)
As I envision it now, each continent will translate into a pulldown selection box in the website (so there will be about 6 pulldown selection next to each other above the map). This should allow users to quickly select their country.
With the tiles from 27-01-2010 there are no streetnames available at the Garmin Etrex Vista HCx, only the first letter and then …
The search for addresses doesn’t work any more, because of the missing streetnames.
No problems with the tiles from 20-01-2010.
Just to inform you,
flux.