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README.md

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 Overview
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-This project contains useful info/tools for processing OSM maps into the mapwriter file format (.map)
+This project contains useful info/tools for processing OSM maps into the mapwriter file format (.map). It was developed to help generating offline map files for Locus on Android.
 
-Manual Procedure
+Dependencies / Prereqs
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+To run this program you'll need the following
 
-Prep 
-== 
-- Download updated maps: http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html and http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/canada.html  
-- Pull latest osmosis from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis 
-- Pull latest mapsforge for osmosis from https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge/blob/master/docs/Downloads.md 
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-Process maps for device 
-== 
-- Setup osmosis in a directory (unzip release -- ZIPBOMB ALERT!!!!) 
-- Create plugins directory under osmosis 
-- Move mapsforge release jar to osmosis/lib/default/ 
-- Decompress maps (if they were previously compressed) 
-- ./osmosis bin/osmosis --rb file=../maps/a_map.osm.pbf --mapfile-writer file=../maps/a_map.map 
--* If you run out of heap space add JAVACMD_OPTIONS="-Xmx16g" to the start of the line 
--* If increasing the heap doesn't work, append type=hd to end of command 
--* You can merge maps using --merge passed to osmosis (before --mapfile-writer) using n-1 instances of --merge where n is the number of --rb or --rx options passed 
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-General Notes 
-= 
-Used to generate above info 
-* https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge/blob/master/docs/Getting-Started-Map-Writer.md
+* A Linux environment
+* Python 3.x installed
+* Java 1.8 or higher installed (OpenJDK works)
+* wget installed
+* bunzip2 installed (usually part of bzip2 package)
+
+Installation
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+Head over to releases tab and download the latest. Extract the file and you're good to go. Everything is self-contained minuse the above dependencies.
+
+Running
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+To run the program, cd to the directory where you extracted the release and run './process_maps.py' with at least one '--map-list /path/to/list.txt parameter'. See the lists directory for examples on how to format the map list files.
+
+Program Usage
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+usage: process_maps.py [-h] [--map-list MAP_LIST] [--no-sleep] [--use-ram]
+
+optional arguments:
+  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
+  --map-list MAP_LIST  a text file with one map URL per line, can be specified
+                       more than once
+  --no-sleep           don't sleep between downloads -- WARNING you can easily
+                       run into throttling on mirrors if you use this option
+  --use-ram            use RAM for mapsforge processing -- WARNING mapsforge
+                       uses 10x the map size in RAM for processing (ie. 100Mb
+                       map = 1Gb RAM usage), you want a LOT of RAM for this
+                       option
 
 Licencing
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manual_processing.md

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+Manual Procedure
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+
+Prep 
+== 
+- Download updated maps: http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html and http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/canada.html  
+- Pull latest osmosis from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis 
+- Pull latest mapsforge for osmosis from https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge/blob/master/docs/Downloads.md 
+ 
+Process maps for device 
+== 
+- Setup osmosis in a directory (unzip release -- ZIPBOMB ALERT!!!!) 
+- Create plugins directory under osmosis 
+- Move mapsforge release jar to osmosis/lib/default/ 
+- Decompress maps (if they were previously compressed) 
+- ./osmosis bin/osmosis --rb file=../maps/a_map.osm.pbf --mapfile-writer file=../maps/a_map.map 
+  * If you run out of heap space add JAVACMD_OPTIONS="-Xmx16g" to the start of the line 
+  * If increasing the heap doesn't work, append type=hd to end of command 
+  * You can merge maps using --merge passed to osmosis (before --mapfile-writer) using n-1 instances of --merge where n is the number of --rb or --rx options passed 
+ 
+General Notes 
+= 
+Used to generate above info 
+* https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge/blob/master/docs/Getting-Started-Map-Writer.md
+