It is really good that we pursue all directions in parallel. I really hope geofabrik will help us with extraction.
Meanwhile, I set up XAPI → osmosis chain. Starting from now, I will upload to the same location daily israel.osm.bz2 in addition to gmapsupp.img; unless geofabrik will do useful one.
As of now, israel.osm.bz2 is 17Mb and gmapsupp.img is 34Mb.
I will experiment with downloading asia extract, and will reconfigure scripts if it will be proven better way to go.
For other stuff, I added “–name-tag-list=name:en,name,name:he,name:ar” for mkgmap. I still have no idea why sea is not generated, will check.
Regarding style, it is obtained here:
http://openmtbmap.x-nation.de/maps/openmtbmap_style.zip
They have TYP file, and lots of other data I don’t familiar with.
I will be glad for any ideas for further improvements.