Now made possible with the new Rendermachine:
Germany and France with complete coverage and combined Cycle/Hikeroutes
Germany:
The Mapping of Germany is made in the same way as the Netherlands to ensure sufficiant loading times, the downside is that this adds some MB to the mapsize – not a big issue in times of 64GB SD-Cards
The seperated cycle/Hike maps for Germany will stay in the portfolio – maybe they will be replaced by smaler maps with the coverage of the German states.
France:
The French map is redered with a special mapping that ensures fast loading times. If you like this mapping it is possible to use it for other big maps in the future. The France South/Mid/North maps will be discontinued with the next update.
Update of the complete European mapset:
All maps now contain the tags for additional cycle barriers:
<pois> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="bollard" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="cycle_barrier" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="gate" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="lift_gate" zoom-appear="16" /> <osm-tag key="barrier" value="chain" zoom-appear="16" /> </pois>
Currently these tags are not rendered in the standard Renderthemes. However, MTB-enthusiasts will manage to add these to their custom Themes.
BUT: keep in mind that in the current version of Mapsforge pois are not rendered 100% reliable, so keep two fingers at the brake levers 😉
Best regards, Christian
The long awaited maps for Canada are now available, only Ontario and the NW-Territories + Novanut are still mising and will be added ASAP.
Now available:
- Alberta
- British-Columbia (complete coverage)
- Saskatchewan
- Vancouver
- Manitoba
- Quebec_North, incl. Newfoundland
- Quebec_South, incl. Nova Scotia und New Brunswick
- Yukon
If there are Problems with these maps please drop me a line with a permalink of the region in question – the datastructure of the millions of lakes in some areas are most complicted (Monster relations with thousands of members) and may lead to problems with mapsforge.
On the way completing Asia three new maps were added:
– Mongolia
– China-West
– Kasakhstan
Rendering of these maps became possible with the new Rendermachine.
The apperence of Desert-areas now is improved in lower zoom levels, trunks and primary highways now appear at lower zoom levels.
The new rendemachine is up and running, all problems that occured during the upgrade are identified and solved.
So most of the European maps are updated, the renderthemes now render the names of big citys more reliable so the overview in low zoom-levels is improved. These themes are available for download and will be included in the map-zips with the next update.
I’m looking forward to offer a new, more complete, mapset for Canada in the oncomming weeks and an update of whole America – both north and south.
More than 50% of the costs of the new rendermachine were covered by – YOU – so I want to say thanks, and please support this project further on to keep it up.
Best regards, Christian