[mkgmap-dev] Address search issues

Sat Mar 19 23:36:47 GMT 2011

Hi list

I am trying to get address search going. It is almost working but not 
quite. I have updated mkgmap to the newest trunk and am invoking it with:

java -ea -Xmx1536m -jar ../../mkgmap.jar \
     --gmapsupp \
     --description="Italia 19.03.2011" \
     --countryname=Italia \
     --country-abbr=ITA \
     --latin1 \
     --family-name="$country $date" \
     --max-jobs \
     --route \
     --remove-short-arcs \
     --adjust-turn-headings \
     --add-pois-to-areas \
     --generate-sea=multipolygon \
     --index \
     --nsis \
     --make-all-cycleways \
     --link-pois-to-ways \
     --tdbfile \
     torino.osm

The OSM file used for testing is just the city center of Turin, Italy, 
downloaded via JOSM.

After mkgmap has built the map, I am generating an NSIS installer, 
installing it in Windows XP running under VirtualBox and uploading to my 
Vista HCX. During address search, everything works as expected first. 
The Vista lets me select "Italia" for the country and "Torino, ITA" for 
the city (no other country or city is shown). I can enter an arbitrary 
house number. When I select the street name field, I get a complete 
alphabetical list. Entering *any* letter makes the device show "Not 
found". If, instead, I scroll down the list to the street I am looking 
for and select that, it is found correctly on the map.

In MapSource, address search suffers a very similar problem. Here, too, 
starting to type a street name does not narrow down my choices as it 
should. Instead, it has unpredictable effects. For example, typing the 
single letter "D", instead of reducing the list to streets with "D" in 
their name, scrolls down to the first street starting with "F". 
Something seems to be off with the index.

I would appreciate any tips on what to try.

- Bartosz