[mkgmap-dev] Index and equally named cities

Thu Jun 2 13:59:22 BST 2011

Hallo WanMil,

could you please give me your settings for the splitter and mkgmap.
Maybe something goes wrong with gmapi.py?!

Thanks 
Martin

Am 02.06.2011 um 14:36 schrieb WanMil:

> Martin, Steve,
> 
> compiling only the given tile I cannot reproduce the problem. MapSource 
> search is ok and searching on the Oregon finds Schafblumenhalde too.
> 
> Anyhow I have reviewed some relevant source code parts and have a 
> question Steve maybe can answer.
> 
> The class PlacesFile contains the methods:
> 	City createCity(Country country, String name, boolean unique)
> 	City createCity(Region region, String name, boolean unique)
> 
> They are called when creating a city from a place tag (unique=true) and 
> when creating a road (unique=false).
> I don't understand in detail what the unique parameter should do.
> 
> WanMil
> 
> 
>> Hello Steve,
>> 
>> thank you for your fast reply.
>> My problems with not findable streets still exist.
>> If a town is devided into 2 or more pieces, only streets could be find on the tile which contains the place-tag. Tested on Basecamp for Mac and my Garmin Oregon. On Mapsource it seems to work. I don't know how the index is generated (tile by tile or all-in-one), but I hope this helps you to find the problem.
>> When I copy the place-tag into this tile then I can find all that streets.
>> 
>> Testcase:
>> Tile:
>> 63240403: 2250752,378880 to 2271232,403456
>> #       : 48.295898,8.129883 to 48.735352,8.657227
>> 
>> Streets that are not findable: e.g  Schafblumenhalde (City: Horb am Neckar)
>> 
>> Generated with locator-branch and your patched jar-file.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
>> Am 01.06.2011 um 12:52 schrieb Steve Ratcliffe:
>> 
>>> On 01/06/11 09:24, Martin wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> how can I patch a precompiled jar-file? I would like to test this patch with the locator-branch to see if this fix some problems I've found. Or is it already included in the locator-branch?
>>> 
>>> Its not included in the branch yet.
>>> 
>>> Here is a jar with the patch applied.
>>> 
>>> URL: http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/23/mkgmap.jar
>>> 
>>> Description: mkgmap from locator branch with city_region3.patch applied.
>>> 
>>> 
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