[mkgmap-dev] [index] Automatic location completion

Mon Feb 28 22:11:51 GMT 2011

El 27/02/11 22:33, WanMil escribió:
> I have done some development and want you to share my current findings.
>
> 1. The MapElement copy constructor seems to have a bug. The attributes 
> map which contains the city, region and country information is not 
> copied. From my point of view this is an important thing that should 
> be fixed in the trunk also.
>
> 2. In the patch the Locator is disabled as much as it was possible for 
> me up to now.
>
> 3. I am using now separate tags (mkgmap:city, mkgmap:region etc.).
>
> I recommend to run this patch with location-autofill=-1 or 0 to see 
> how the patch works and not how the old Locator works.
Some findings running your patch on Spain's map:
1-The list of regions (state/country field) is much better than the one 
obtained with trunk. All those included are actual regions (some with 
two different names, e.g. Castilla la Mancha & Castilla-la Mancha). 
Trunk includes many names that are not actual regions of Spain, but 
provinces, cities or even villages.
2-The list of countries has grown from ESP (España), España (ESP) to Es, 
ESP (España), España (ESP), Gribraltar / United Kingdom, Spain, 
Territorial water of Ibiza and Territorial waters of Mallorca. Could we 
have some mechanism to unify all forms of a country in a single one, 
i.e. Es, ESP, España, Spain and Territorial water...->España? Maybe 
LocatorConfig.xml could/should do that.
3-When the country field is filled in any of the search tabs, 
State/Province info is not taken into account.
4-When searching for a street, city, region and country information is 
missing in the results list. Searching for a street+city doesn't work; 
street+(State/Province | Country) does work.