[OSM-talk] OSM maps of Denmark for download to Garmin devices

[Lambertus]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> Lambertus wrote:
>> Splitter tries to automatically determine the maximum tile size for a
>> specific area but the data in that area is giving Splitter false clues.
>> This might be caused by e.g. a combination of many POI's but few roads.
> 
> Not to diminish your work on that front, but I find the tilelayout on your site 
> very strange. Of course it is a work of the splitter, but I would opt for a 
> manual layout, guided by an initial automated process.
> 
Please forgive me for relying on the automated Splitter layout mechanism 
as I have no intention to manually divide the world into 500 tiles (317 
America + 182 Europe/Asia/Africa/Oceania currently). Optimizing the 
tiles would result in even more, so you'd be talking about e.g 750 tiles.

Needless to say: patches welcome ofcourse. The definition files for 
Splitter are:
- http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/america.list
- http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/eurasia.list

> IMHO the strategy that the Mapsource tiles use is much more logical. Take one 
> big tile, if that has too many nodes, split it in half horizontally, if that has 
> too many nodes split it in half vertically... repeat until you have a sufficient 
> small amount of nodes.
> 
This strategy is afaik exactly what Splitter does.