[mkgmap-dev] converting post codes to cities

Wed Sep 11 09:32:06 BST 2013

Barry, the reason why it doesn’t work is that you use
<tag k='place' v='AB10 1AA'/>

you must use a valid ‘place’ tag ,ie

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<osm version='0.5' generator='GPSBabel-1.4.4'>
  <node id='-1' visible='true' lat='57.1482319' lon='-2.0966479'>
    <tag k='created_by' v='GPSBabel-1.4.4'/>
    <tag k='name' v='AB10 1AA'/>

    <tag k='place' v=’locality'/>

  </node>
  <node id='-2' visible='true' lat='57.1487071' lon='-2.0978060'>
    <tag k='created_by' v='GPSBabel-1.4.4'/>
    <tag k='name' v='AB10 1AF'/>

    <tag k='place' v='locality'/>

  </node>

From: gbbickerton [via GIS] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:30 AM
To: nwillink 
Subject: Re: converting post codes to cities

I don't understand, here is a snippet of my osm file 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<osm version='0.5' generator='GPSBabel-1.4.4'>
  <node id='-1' visible='true' lat='57.1482319' lon='-2.0966479'>
    <tag k='created_by' v='GPSBabel-1.4.4'/>
    <tag k='name' v='AB10 1AA'/>
    <tag k='place' v='AB10 1AA'/>
  </node>
  <node id='-2' visible='true' lat='57.1487071' lon='-2.0978060'>
    <tag k='created_by' v='GPSBabel-1.4.4'/>
    <tag k='name' v='AB10 1AF'/>
    <tag k='place' v='AB10 1AF'/>
  </node>

could the node id also be a problem, if it is do you know of an automatic my to change them. 

Barry 

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