Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

greencaps wrote:

And what is what Splitter produces? A compressed file? And in what sizes?

Splitter produces the tiles that are almost always less then 30 MB in gz (gzip) format. It would be useful if your code is able to read and write gz format. Alternatively, if it is able to read from stdin and write to stdout then pipes can be used in combination with the zcat and gzip tools which is fine too.

Working with uncompressed OSM data stored on disk is only really doable if a) you have lots and lots of disk space b) you're working on a small area. Neither is what I'm doing.

The whole point with mkgmap and converting from one code tabel to the other is that it places a questionmark '?' if it cannot find a match. If it would just place one byte from the two bytes that it had to convert than it would do much better. Or just the byte if the character was one byte. Then you would not have seen me here as then I could transliterate afterwards the .img files downloaded from your side. Well atleast I think so.

Perhaps Mkgmap could do that, but then you will be able to make a good map, but all your work has to be duplicated by others to be able to do the same. So I'm in favor of a solution that can be used by everyone.

Today I extracted the borderline of White Russia. Then made a run for placenames. Found 22518 places which needed an int_name (or name:en). There were 36 places which had already a translation. 36!

Maybe a lot of smaller places don't have a well known English or international translations. But, indeed, it's not much. Are you planning on transliterating roadnames and POI as well?