VeloMaps now offer the possibility to show 20m contourlines without buildings on PC/Mac/Linux

By extremecarver, on May 8th, 2022

I updated the VeloMap compilation process to include an option to show 20m contourlines but no buildings. With gmapsupp.img downloads this has been possible now for over a year – however on your PC/Notebook you could only chose to have map without buildings and without contourlines.

Now there are the following choices for the VeloMaps:

Map without buildings and without contourlines Map with 20m conturlines without buildings Map with 20m contourliens including buidings Map with 10m contourlines including buildings

Of course you can also install a separate buildings only map, 20m contourlines map and 10m contourlines map if you prefer to create your maps with Garmin MapInstall instead of using the gmapsupp.img downloads

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For Linux – the corresponding mapset files are called mapsetxb* (while mapsetb are the buildings layer only).

I know the disadvantage of the separate buildings layer is that the buildinds are a transparent layer – this has the disadvantage that they are drawn above other objects. As I assume that about 50% of VeloMap users prefer a map without buildings – I put them in a separate layer for the VeloMap. People who want 10m contourlines (except maybe in very flat countries/areas) usually […]

May 8th, 2022 | 2 comments

Spring 2022 – Updates for OpenMTBMap and VeloMap over the last months

By extremecarver, on April 26th, 2022

Since 6 months I have not written an update over what changed for OpenMTBMaps and VeloMaps – so here we go. Compared to the last changes the updates were much more subtle to notice – and that’s because most of it has been bugfixes on rather rarely happening problems or just updates to OSM keys/values changing.

 

Visually there have been two main changes – most recently – labels for alpine huts are now again (some Basecamp/GPS device updates changed this) – visual earlier, also for some peaks the labels now show a bit earlier – peaks and alpine huts are still the most important features for orientation in mountainous areas.:

 

I reworked the naming of hiking, mtb, or cycling routes – now the most important names go first but more route names won’t be dropped if a way is part of two cycle routes for example as here – this was actually really hard to get done nicely by priority – so here the Internation Cycle Netwrok MV – Munich to Venice is first in name, followed by the National Cycle network R3 Innradweg – section Tiroler Unterland. I tried to remove tagging errors/pecularities like the […]

April 26th, 2022 | Leave a comment
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