kmap Files

What's fixed

A release of fixes. A review of the whole program turned up crashes on damaged or unusual input, and a list of smaller faults. On every region we compared, what a map is built from comes out byte for byte as with 1.4.0, but for one road join described below.

• A damaged or unusual .osm.pbf no longer crashes the reader or the writer.
• A full disk stops a pass with an error instead of a crash, and half-written tiles are removed.
• A GeoTIFF with a broken header, or with NaN for missing heights, no longer crashes the elevation step.
• Copernicus elevation for a large region no longer keeps every tile in memory.
• An empty or one-pixel .hgt is refused instead of crashing the contours.
• A road with a nonsense layer value no longer crashes road repair.
• Road repair no longer merges away a node it has just used to join two roads.
• mkgmap output in Cyrillic is no longer lost in pieces, so a tile that overflows is caught again.
• Contours are kept when the classify pass comes back empty.
• A re-split no longer classifies every extract again.
• A split too large to tell its tiles apart says so instead of crashing.
• Custom POIs (.gpi) cover every region of a joined map, not the first alone.
• Downloads: a short single-connection file is resumed rather than kept, and a drop after the last byte is no longer an error.
• An interrupted install no longer leaves a half-patched mkgmap that is taken for the original.
• Ctrl+C stops kmap build cleanly, the tools it runs included; a second Ctrl+C leaves at once.
• Ctrl+C no longer waits for the checksum of a large extract to finish.
• kmap recover stops with an error on a damaged .img instead of crashing.
• TYP files: several crashes on malformed files fixed, and files saved with Windows line endings are read.
• A true-colour icon in an imported TYP is left out with a note instead of breaking the compile.
• A substitution sheet saved with Windows line endings is no longer read as empty.
• Command line: a flag no longer takes the next flag as its value.
• Command line: unknown build options, unknown --sources and non-numbers where a number is due are refused.
• kmap build + no longer crashes.
• The build and settings forms scroll on a short terminal, so Build is always in reach.
• Prompts, questions and dialogs show on a small terminal.
• Saving or deleting says so when the file could not be written.
• A mouse report split in two is no longer typed into the editor as digits.
• Chinese, Japanese, Korean and emoji in names and tool output take their real width on screen.
• Windows: the command line prints in UTF-8, so dashes and dots are no longer garbled.
• Windows: copies, downloads and logs wait for a virus scanner to let go of a file.
• Faster: the split, contours next to large water, and the POI file.

Changed. kmap build <region> --dem with no profile now lifts the summits in the elevation layer, as kmap help always said. Road repair gives one join a different shape: the only case in the Northwestern district of Russia is three indoor corridors at a metro station.

Upgrading

Install over the top. On Debian and Ubuntu sudo apt install ./kmap_1.4.1_<arch>.deb; on other Linux unpack the archive and put kmap on your PATH; on Windows run the installer; on macOS replace the app. Profiles, styles and cached downloads stay put.

Which file

Windows 10 1803 or later, macOS 13 or later, Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 11 or later, any other Linux with glibc 2.17 or later. dpkg --print-architecture or uname -m prints the word you need.

First run

Nothing here is code-signed, so the first launch takes one extra click. On Windows: More info, then Run anyway. On macOS: right-click kmap and choose Open; from macOS 15, System Settings, Privacy & Security, Open Anyway.

checksums.txt carries a SHA-256 for every file above.