<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Gerd<div class="">There is an archive of Garmin updates here <a href="http://gawisp.com/perry/" class="">http://gawisp.com/perry/</a> and for Oregon here <a href="http://gawisp.com/perry/oregon/" class="">http://gawisp.com/perry/oregon/</a></div><div class="">and this may be the 4.6 update <a href="http://gawisp.com/perry/oregon/Oregon6x0_WebUpdater__460.gcd" class="">gawisp.com/perry/oregon/Oregon6x0_WebUpdater__460.gcd</a></div><div class="">I have not used these before so I am unsure if you can revert to the older state using these?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nev </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 May 2017, at 3:52 PM, Gerd Petermann <<a href="mailto:gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com" class="">gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">It seems that r3942 produces maps which work quite well with MapSource and Basecamp.<br class="">I can find roads with names like Æblegården or "Außer Ort". <br class="">I find POI in the expected category.<br class=""><br class="">Anyhow, I see different results on my devices.<br class="">It seems that the Oregon 600 with firmware 5.00 doesn't "understand" the GARMIN SRT file.<br class="">Road names containing characters which appear in the "expand" section cause trouble.<br class="">For cp-1252 (--latin1) these are<br class="">expand … to . . .<br class="">expand ¼ to 1 / 4<br class="">expand ½ to 1 / 2<br class="">expand ¾ to 3 / 4<br class="">expand æ to a e<br class="">expand Æ to A E<br class="">expand œ to o e<br class="">expand Œ to O E<br class="">expand ß to s s<br class="">expand ™ to T M<br class="">I am pretty sure now that this is a bug in the Oregon firmware.<br class="">It would be interesting to know if firmware 4.60 worked. According to this page<br class=""><a href="http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=6157" class="">http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=6157</a><br class="">there was a change described "Improved address search" with 4.80. Unfortunately I was not able to <br class="">download any previous version. Any hints?<br class=""><br class="">The Nüvi2447 seems to work fine with maps created with --latin1 (also with --lower-case) <br class="">but says that --unicode maps are broken. This also happens when I use MapSource to <br class="">install the map on the device. The installed map "GARMIN CN Europe NTU 2018.1" is a unicode map<br class="">and works fine.<br class=""><br class="">So, if you create maps which contain road names containing special characters,<br class="">please try how maps created with r3942 work on your device(s).<br class="">I've uploaded a copy of the version here:<br class="">http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/351/mkgmap-optimize-index-r3942.zip<br class=""><br class="">These are the test cases that don't work on my Oregon:<br class="">Map around Copenhagen:<br class="">- Search for all roads in Denmark starting with Æ (switch to Danish keyboard to be able to type that character)<br class="">or Ae doesn't find any road, it should find many.<br class="">- Search for other special characters like Ø works fine.<br class="">- Search for all roads in city "Albertslund Kommune" lists<br class=""> ...<br class="">Abildgården<br class="">Æblets Kvt<br class="">Alberts Have<br class="">Alberts Vænge<br class="">...<br class="">When I search for roads starting with A in Albertslund Kommune it lists only Abildgården<br class="">Similar results with other searches, the device seems to stop reading the data when the first name with Æ is hit.<br class="">When I search for AL (so that it doesn't read the Æ name) it lists the above roads. <br class="">Don't know if I should contact Garmin ?<br class=""><br class="">Gerd<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">mkgmap-dev mailing list<br class="">mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br class="">http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>