[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r2658: Use mkgmap:street tag to get street name for house number search

Fri Jul 19 17:19:09 BST 2013

On Fri, Jul 19, Felix Hartmann wrote:

> Actually neither of the two lines works!!!!
> 
> 
> Have I understood wrong how it should work?
> name=* {set mkgmap:street='${name}'} as first line in my lines file, 
> doesn't help. I still get all the added "junk" like refs or route names 
> and so on in the address search (used mapsource to try it out)...
> highway=* & name=* {set mkgmap:street='${name}'} also has no effect at 
> all on the address search.
>
> where is my error?

As far as I understood, mkgmap:street is used to match the
housenumbers to streets (if you modify name, addr:streetname 
will no longer match).
It's not used for the address index.

  Thorsten

> On 19.07.2013 17:30, Felix Hartmann wrote:
> > oh, found out that:
> > name=* {set mkgmap:street='${name}'}
> >
> > doesn't have any performance impact. Dunno why this is so much 
> > quicker.... but it works. So it's good and documented here for 
> > everyone wondering how to use mkgmap:street.
> > On 19.07.2013 17:28, Felix Hartmann wrote:
> >> thanks for that solution. However the performance impact is quite 
> >> tremendous.
> >> E.g. on Austria I have without it
> >> 2:55 (min/sec).
> >> By adding the line: highway=* & name=* {set mkgmap:street='${name}'}
> >> at the beginning of my lines file (or better, latest possibility 
> >> before name changes).
> >> the time increases to about 3:45. I have tested the time impact 
> >> several times - no changes >1sec...
> >>
> >> That's about a 25% increase in rendering time on mkgmap.jar.
> >>
> >> The solution is probably to only set mkgmap:street only for name 
> >> changes - which will require quite a lot of additional code - at 
> >> least for me. I will try and report probably next week.... (so for 
> >> every set name=...  -  run { addmkgmap:street {$name}; set name=..... 
> >> } hope this works and doesn't need to be put one line earlier )
> >> or any easy optimization solution that doesn't need such a big name=* 
> >> search?
> >> On 17.07.2013 21:10, svn commit wrote:
> >>> Version 2658 was committed by wanmil on Wed, 17 Jul 2013
> >>>
> >>> Use mkgmap:street tag to get street name for house number search
> >>>
> >>> The house number matching algorithm now checks the mkgmap:street tag 
> >>> on roads. If it is set it uses it to match to the addr:street tags 
> >>> of house number elements. This enables style developers to put refs 
> >>> and other infos into the street name and at the same time have a 
> >>> good matching for house number search.
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> 
> Felix
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