[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] POI Address Support, Country Region Autofill

Thu Feb 5 23:11:25 GMT 2009

Hi Bernhard,

Playing around with my etrex, I can see that if a POI has a city and region
associated with it, the "map info" box on the GPS shows the city and
region names. That's nice because the /cityname that's currently
being appended to the road name could be removed.

Unfortunately, if the POI city does not have a region then the city name
doesn't show up in the "map info" box. That's why I added the /cityname
suffix in the first place. It was a hack to get over the fact that the
city name was not being shown (automatically) by the gps.

That's a shame, I was hoping to be able to lose the /cityname suffix
but if the region names are wrong, I'd rather have the suffix.

So, please make your new functionality be enabled by an option rather than
being the default behaviour and, if enabled, don't add the /cityname
suffix to the road name pois as it's no longer required.

Cheers,

Mark