[mkgmap-dev] Improved street search in index branch

Tue Jan 11 22:13:56 GMT 2011

Hi Steve,

you are doing a great job!

I tested the latest index branch, compiled a map of germany with the 
default style and tried some searches in MapSource.

* Searching for streets works fine for me.
* Searching for streets and cities does not work (error message from 
MapSource)
* Searching for crossroads works most of the time. But I made an 
interesting observation:
If you search for a crossroads of two residentials and one of the 
residentials also exists as track (with the same name), the crossroads 
is not found. Example: Lesumstrasse and Valmeweg 
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.47523&lon=7.560158&zoom=18&layers=M). 
I have also tried other examples. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. 
Maybe the problem is that the street is cut in more than one part.

WanMil

> Hi
>
> On the index branch I have committed a change to sort the roads in the
> NET section in the same order as in the index.  Prior to the I was
> unable to find any street containing a ü character in the first
> part of the name, now I can almost always find a street if the
> city field is empty.
>
> I have also found the reason why cities are in the index in
> incompatible forms such as Mönchweiller and Moenchweiller.
> There is some hard coded styling that uses the openGeoDB:sort_name
> tag to get the name of the city for an element, but the city itself
> gets the regular name tag (or whatever the style sets the name to).
>
> So I've changed this to use openGeoDB:name instead.
>
> As the change affects the tiles you must recompile the tiles, not just
> the index.  You must also use --latin1.
>
> ..Steve
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