[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v6] - alpha patch to support road find by name

Wed Mar 18 11:18:35 GMT 2009

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:22:12PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
> v6 - Now based on r984 - Now uses separate labels for road name and ref
> so you no longer get "Foo street (A123)" - this allows roads to be
> searched for by name or by ref. If you are using your own style files
> make sure to change the line that sets the highway name to:
> 
> # If highway has a name, use it, or if it has a ref, use that as the
> name highway=* {name '${name}' | '${ref}' }
> 
> When entering an address, the road names are searchable incrementally
> but the city names are not. Interestingly, if you enter a city name or
> the prefix of a city name it will scroll the list of city names to the
> appropriate position - weird.
> 
> As reported by a tester, if you select a city, it doesn't limit the
> roads in the list to only the roads in that city, you still get
> presented with a list of all the roads in the known universe.
> 
> I have good reason to believe that these two issues will only be solved
> by supplying further index information (MDR file perhaps?)
> 
> So, it may be that the current functionality is the best we can hope
> for until the MDR is cracked.

Works for me except the little things mostly mentioned and known:

- City search doesnt work
- Lots of segments of the same street
- Multiple refs seperated by ";" are not put in the search twice
  but show up as "A 33; B 64" for example ...
- City shown in the street list is non optimal but thats a matter of
  missing correct administrative hierarchie

Flo
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