[OSM-talk] mkgmap questions

[Simon Wood]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:41:33 -0700
"Karl Newman" <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You're right. It's because the source files don't have bounds. If you have
> only a couple files, you could insert a dummy bound element before the first
> node. It should work as long as it includes the area that you're cropping
> with --bb. You could just make it span the entire planet, like <bound
> box="-90,-180,90,180" origin="osmxapi"/> and then Osmosis will cut it down
> to your bounding box.
> 

Hello again Karl,
Yes, placing a dummy 'planet wide' <bound box> into one of the files makes osmosis insert the more limited one in the output.

One would think that XAPI would include  <bound box> in it's output.... hint hint ;-)

Cheers,
Simon.