[mkgmap-dev] addr:place support

Sat Apr 4 15:11:36 BST 2015

Hi Gerd,

not much help from me, but some observations.

If you add a name to a road, then it will be visible on GPS. I find it 
quite interesting, to know place name on nuvi, displayed as a road. But 
it would be wrong, if road would have names outside village area. So 
your algorithm should limit names to area near buildings.

If road has no name but ref number, it is usually displayed as a shield 
with number. I would prefer to preserve this shield. You could for 
example add place name as secondary label after finalize stage. Actually 
you could do it for a road with proper name too.

Building with addr:place are usually scattered at random. If you add 
numbers to multiple road segments, you can create layout, where GPS 
interpolating numbers will finds the same number in multiple segments.

In my opinion, addr:place is a good candidate for point addressing. I 
have written about it: create short line at the point coordinates and 
attach house number and place name to it.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrzej