[Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

[Paul Norman]

The administrative boundaries in the lower mainland are not complete. I've
been looking for a source for the rest of them, but haven't found one.

 

From: SAMUEL LONGIARU [mailto:longiaru at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:42 PM
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

 

Good Afternoon Everyone, 

I've been lurking on the MkGMap developers list for several months now and
see that recently, they have solved some major issues regarding finding
streets when OSM is imported for use on Garmin GPS's... without the use of
MapSource!  They are now moving on to the problem of locating by house
number.  That's a great accomplishment and the developers deserve a lot of
credit.!!!  Very well done.

Don't know if anyone else has been playing with this, but in short, there
may need to be some Canadian-specific tweaks placed into the default style
files that are packaged with MkGMap.  Through adjustments to the MkGMap
command line options, I've been able get the location function to work
fairly well in my Nuvi 255, but have run into the issue where I can find
Granville Street in "Vancouver" but Hastings Street can only be found under
"Gastown" and Dundas Street under "Capitol Hill".  These should all be found
in Vancouver.

My first guess is that the administrative boundary levels need to be
tweaked, not in OSM but in the MkGMap style files where some recasting can
take place.  They already have country-specific tweaks for about 20 European
countries but nothing for Canada yet.

I was just wondering if anyone has a customized MkGMap style file that works
logically with the way administrative boundaries have been set up in Canada?
If so, and we can show that it works well with r2179, their most  recent
stable version, we could probably pass it on to them for inclusion in the
packaged style files so that the location function will work by default on
Canadian extracts.  Assuming you're willing to share of course :)

Thanks...

Sam Longiaru,
Kamloops, BC        

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