[mkgmap-dev] Inconsistent search function

Thu Nov 15 14:24:51 GMT 2012

El 14/11/12 23:41, Steve Ratcliffe escribió:
> Hi
>
>    
>>> 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.
>>      
> I believe that the differences are related to the change in r2335.
>
> That includes a change where if a POI does not have a city, but does
> have a region, then a city without a name is created with the given
> region.
>
> These cities are not included in the index as seen by mapsource
> because they don't have a name.  The device index is different, and so
> the device can work out the region from the information in the img
> file.
>
> I might be able to fix the index, so that uses the region of
> a city that has no name. But I wonder if I am missing something.
> In the index you can attach a POI to either a city or a region
> directly with a flag and it makes sense that you could do
> that in the img file too.  I did check when the question came up,
> because I had a bad feeling about cities with no name, but perhaps
> I was was looking at street rather than POIs.
>
> With maps created before r2335, are the POIs findable on both
> mapsource and the device or missing on both?
I have compiled the map of Cuba with r2332 and noticed no difference 
neither on MapSource nor on HCx or nuvi 300. If you want to have a look 
at the map I can put it somewhere to download.