[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v7] - alpha patch to support road find by name

Wed Mar 18 22:21:53 GMT 2009

Hi Marko,

> > Due to time constraints (I do have to work as well!) I haven't had a
> > real good think about this. I'm quite busy now so perhaps someone else
> > will take up the challenge.
> > 
> > To be honest, I'm fed up because I have put a lot of hours into the
> > exit stuff and some more into this road addressing stuff and both
> > features have annoying usability faults. So close...
> 
> Hey, it's not that bad.  I think that the road name search is a useful
> feature even in its current form.  The faults can be documented, and
> fixes can be attempted later.  Come to think of it, even the maps without
> routing support were useful.

True, true - Rome wasn't built in a day, etc.

Playing around with the road name search, I just verified that if you
prefix your numeric road names with one or more letters ('AA', for
example) they are now incrementally searchable. So we could put in a
hack to add the prefix?

Cheers,

Mark