GEO DATA GEODTA Question, HELP, WTF

**aberz** · November 28th, 2007, 04:32

http://getroute.nieko.net/

Thnx for the link nieko, you make my day. Now I can get route on the fly, well, with wifi of course. Still better than nothign

**Nieko** · November 28th, 2007, 15:39

zerodays: this geodata.dat is corrupt. The city names (Sparta, Wayland, etc.) are padded with spaces instead of null bytes, which means you have to enter them in the search too.

Also, though the size fields are correct, the offsets are wrong (first one is 50Fh but should be 383h).

I think this is simply a bug in GMDL. in7ane, can you take a look at this? zerodays: can you tell what exact steps you have taken to get this geodata.dat?

**zerodays** · November 28th, 2007, 23:29

Neiko, here is the actual TEMP folders zipped

I used the latest 'B' version og GDML

As you can see, once you put them into GDML temp folder (e.g., C:\GDML\...),

Start Program ->
Click Geodata -> Click Geodta (Semi-Auto)
Step 1/3 Load map (I did that)
Step 2/3 Click (automatically finds 30/64, done) I only need 30, as the rest 34 segments are mountains, etc.

Step 3/3 Save ! (I also made sure, I 'deleted' any geodata.dat to make sure to create a new geodata.dat)

Cheers

Neiko, I do not think you need the actual map, as the file I've attached here are the temps of 'readable' formats... I just need to covert to .dat
But if possible, I'd like mapthis to load these .txt file..
It would be great (e..g, possibly a bit faster loading)

Cheers

**Nieko** · November 29th, 2007, 10:29

I think this is more something for in7ane to take a look at, because I think it's a GMDL bug.

Btw., my name is Nieko

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**suzukici** · November 29th, 2007, 11:03

Hi Neiko,
Is it possible to adding ''http://maps.live.com'' to your http://getroute.nieko.net/?

**zerodays** · November 29th, 2007, 11:07

Originally Posted by Nieko

I think this is more something for in7ane to take a look at, because I think it's a GMDL bug.

Btw., my name is Nieko

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Ok, sorry about that, Neiko sounds more Japanese, I have a eurobeat friends from Netherland, and somehow their names seem like that.

In that case, I guess I will have to try 'a' version.

Cheers.

**zerodays** · November 29th, 2007, 11:17

ok, sadly, 'a' still do not work..

Nieko, can u tell me the strutures of the geodata.dat ?

As long as I know how things work, I am pretty sure I can simply convert this txt file to .dat (using whatever zlib, as well)

Cheers.

**Nieko** · November 29th, 2007, 13:59

suzukici: see PM, I'll post when I'm done (if possible), but don't expect it too soon. Also, this isn't the right topic for that, http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66572 is.

zerodays: you can get all this information from the scripts in http://stuff.nieko.net/psp/mapthis/geodata/process.zip. See the comments in header.pl and split-up.pl. The header and data are divided by "#####".

You could of course also use these scripts to make your geodata.dat

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**in7ane** · December 1st, 2007, 05:36

Nieko, yes, I see the bug - thanks for that. I will try and get that fixed as soon as I get a chance (it's in at least two places that I can see so far).