[mkgmap-dev] Problem with --road-name-pois

Sun May 31 23:33:14 BST 2009

Hi Felix,

> I think this has not yet been mentioned on the mailing-list:
> 
> There seems to be some code missing in the road-name-pois. I changed the 
> ID to several values that if used inside the Points file, would be 
> findable with the search function. If however I use the same ID for the 
> -road-name-pois option, then I can only find the roadname via the all 
> points of interstest, via the category, but not via the subcategory.
> For Mapsource this makes no great difference, but on my Vista HCx it 
> means that if I can't search via subcategory, the maximum distance in 
> cities is around 10km to find a streetname by using category/find 
> nearest containing.....
> If I could go via category/select subcategory/find nearest containing, 
> the actual distance could be bigger, so the function would be more useful.

On my vista hcx, using Find/geographic points/all categories I can
search the RNP using "nearest containing" and locate roads more than
50km away.

> (Well a real search index which supports searching for name and city and 
> not just name would be much much better, so I don't know if anyone of 
> you is interested in bugcoding this).

The road name search (find/addresses) found the same road (> 50 Km
away) as well.

Cheers,

Mark