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

Thu Mar 19 12:11:11 GMT 2009

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:21:53PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v7] - alpha patch to support road find by name
> 
> 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?

Might it be that the order is wrong in the data? Probably the least
specific match should be first:

	1
	14
	140

vs

	140
	14
	1

Probably the search stops if it finds an exact match so less specifics
need to come first ...

Flo
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	Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little 
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