[mkgmap-dev] Inconsistent search function

Mon Nov 12 15:41:20 GMT 2012

El 12/11/12 11:36, Steve Ratcliffe escribió:
> Hi
>
>    
>> Any idea why these differences happen and how to fix them? Why some
>> POI/Countries are not found?
>>      
> I will have a look at your map and see if anything could be changed
> to make it work better.
>
> Mapsource and the devices do work very differently when it comes to
> searching and it is possible that there is nothing that can be done
> easily.
I'm aware of such differences, but I had not faced a case like this one 
before, with missing countries (can't type Cuba on nuvi 300 address 
search, so no address can be found in this country) or no POI findable 
at all (nuvi 3760). On the HCx I've discovered that "La Bodeguita del 
Medio" is included in the list of nearest POI displayed by device and 
you can select it, although if you try to spell it, it doesn't appear.
Yesterday I compiled a map with only Cuba in it [1] and a little part of 
Bahamas and even so, nuvi 300 is unable to use Cuba in the address 
search menu but can find addresses in Bahamas.
[1] Cut from central-america extract from Geofabrik with ./osmconvert32 
central-america.osm.pbf -b=-85.075,19.25,-73.72,23.462 --out-osm 
-o=cuba.osm and compiled with java -Xmx1000M -ea -jar mkgmap.jar 
--gmapsupp --latin1 --code-page=1252 --country-name=CUBA 
--country-abbr=CUB --area-name="Cuba" --family-name="OpenStreetMap Cuba" 
--family-id=121 --product-id=1 --series-name="OSM-Cuba" 
--overview-mapname=55121000 --overview-mapnumber=55121000 --index 
--route ../mapas/pruebas/63240001.img typ/AME-121.TYP