[mkgmap-dev] Search addresses for latin countries (help on reg exp)

Mon Aug 5 22:03:30 BST 2013

I tried r2662 but... no luck. Index search is  worse: using "Via Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart" as example, actually if I type "Via W" and tap done nothing
is found, same for "Via Wo", then if I type "Via Wol" magically (without
tapping on done) two entries appears (indeed just the two entries in the
city starting with "Via Wol"). If I try to search by "Mozart" or "Wolfgang"
or whatever and tap on done nothing is found. So just the "autosearch"
seems to work and on the street full name only :( I've a Nuvi510.

Not sure if it helps, but the final mkgmap output was:

=== FIRST
t1=0, t2=139294
first av 197031/20, last 0/10
ALLEE : 15180
VIALE : 27286
CHEMIN : 68618
PIAZZA : 22592
ROUTE : 39198
RUE : 98746
STRADA : 57822
AVENUE : 26016
VICOLO : 12536
VIA : 720774
IMPASSE : 19896
BOULEVARD : 8114
=== LAST
STRASSE : 15568
ULICA : 7700

Here the file size, the r2662 is 60MB bigger (as expected)
-rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 1069744128 Jul 14 16:01 gmapsupp.img   r2656
-rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 1126793216 Aug  5 22:33 gmapsupp.img  r2662

and I got some errors related to SeaGenerator that did not appear with
r2656:

SEVERE (SeaGenerator): ./data/63240001.osm.pbf: Disable precompiled sea due
to missing index.txt file in precompiled sea directory sea_20130701.zip

but the file index.txt is there (in .gz format) in WanMil's zipped
sea_20130701.zip

Any clue?

Thanks again
Enrico

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Enrico Liboni <eliboni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve you are the man! I'm rebuilding my map now. By the way, I believe
> that indexing just the last word make more sense to avoid a lot of useless
> entries, since words in the middle are usually first names or prepositions.
> I'll have a try and let you know. Thanks!
>
> Enrico
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> > Folks, as you know – this comes up time to time –  address search is
>> > unpractical in most Latin countries where the street/square name usually
>> > starts with the type  (Via, Viale,Corso,  Piazza etc [IT];  Avenida,
>> > Calle, Plaza etc [ES];  Avenue, Boulevard, Rue, Place etc [FR] etc.)
>> > followed by the full name of  - usually - the person naming the street.
>> > Nevertheless the street names sometime appears abbreviated (V.le,
>> >   Av.da, Bld.  etc),  sometime the Middle name is skipped, sometime the
>> > work “of” is used (Avenue de Bobigny, Corso del Popolo etc)
>> >
>>
>> The Garmin index format has a way of dealing with this problem and
>> earlier this year I made a branch that creates an index with the extra
>> information to show where the interesting part of the name starts.
>>
>> The latest version indexes every word in the name separately so you
>> could find 'corso del popolo' by typing 'corso' , 'del' or 'popolo'.
>>
>> So this will always work for any language, but at the cost of a
>> much larger index.
>>
>> It would be great if someone could try it out as it is, then
>> if useful, its more likely that someone would improve it. By
>> devising a suitable way to cut down the useless entries.
>>
>> Download it as mkgmap-mixed-index-r2662.jar at the bottom of the download
>> page.
>>
>> > So what is a simple Mozartstrasse in Austria would look like “Via
>> > Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in Italy or “Rue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in
>> > France but possibly also “Av.da de Mozart” etc.
>> >
>> > Now, everyone knows the street/square by its last name and it would be
>> > much more practical to search by it:  I’d like to have a style that just
>> > pick the last full word of the street/square name and put it as a suffix
>> > followed by a comma and the original name.
>> >
>> > This would really boost address search for Latin countries – so it might
>> > be a default style to add to IT, FR, ES, BR, MX… etc).
>> >
>> > Could you help me on making that regular expression for the style?
>> >
>> > “str1 str2… strN” -> “strN, str1 str2… strN”
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Enrico
>> >
>> >
>> >
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