[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] Reworked road name pois now supports both OSM and PM files

Wed Feb 4 09:41:09 GMT 2009

Hi Carlos,

> I hadn't time to test your patch till now. It's great. Now I can search
> by any street name in the map. Thanks Mark.
> I think it would be good to get it merged in trunk as a workaround for
> the "Find address" function not working till now.

Thanks for the feedback - please do say if you think it could be improved.

At the moment, it finds the city nearest to the road name poi but that
doesn't always give the "best" result. Consider, you could have a road that
lies mostly near city A but, by chance, the poi ends up nearer some
other city (B). In that case, the road name will be suffixed with B
rather than A as you would expect. I am not sure it's worth the effort
to fix this.

Yes, until (if ever) the "find address" function is implemented, it does
provide a basic street search capability and it will work on any gps that
supports find poi by name. Cheap and cheerful, as they say.

Cheers,

Mark