[OSM-talk] mkgmap questions

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Simon Wood <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I made some really good progress last week and got a map together for the
> Crowsnest Pass. Unfortunately for the area I chose with a fair number of
> contours the map redraw was quite slow. I have worked out how to graduate
> the contours so more appear as the user zooms in, I'll have to wait to see
> if this speeds up rendering.
>
> I was thinking that the render might be quicker if I used a series of
> smaller maps. I used osmosis to split the '.osm' file into smaller tiles.
> However this was not putting any 'bound box' line into the file and mkgmap
> was therefore not cropping the tile neatly, instead it was including the
> ways which overhung the edge of the bounding box. Should this be the case,
> or am I mis-understanding?
>

What version of Osmosis are you using, because I added that feature (writing
of the bound element) a while ago, so it should work if your input file has
a bound element.

Karl
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