[mkgmap-dev] Please check if help is okay

Wed May 31 17:06:24 BST 2017

Hi Gerd,

it is clear your documentation for the new --road-name-config parameter.
However, what is the relation or impact using this new parameter
concomitantly with --x-split-name-index? Are they mutually exclusive?

I suggest to clarify this in the documentation.

Thanks.

Regards,

Alexandre

2017-05-31 4:39 GMT-03:00 Gerd Petermann <GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> in r3963 I tried to document the new prefix / suffix stuff:
> --road-name-config=file
>         This option handles the problem that some countries have road
> names which
>         ofter start or end with very similar words, e.g. in France the
> first word
>         is very often 'Rue', ofter followed by a preposition like 'de la'
> or 'des'.
>         This leads to rather long road names like 'Rue de la Concorde'
> where only
>         the word 'Concorde' is really interesting. In the USA, you ofter
> have names
>         like 'West Main Street' where only the word 'Main' is important.
>         Garmin software has some tricks to handle this problem. It allows
> to use
>         special characters in the road labels which mark the beginning and
> end of
>         the important part.
>         There are two different visiual effects of this option:
>         - On the PC, when zooming out, the name 'Rue de la Concorde' is
> only
>                 rendered as 'Concorde'.
>         - The index for road names only contains the important part of the
> name.
>                 You can search for road name Conc to find road names like
> 'Rue de la Concorde'.
>                 One problem: Search for 'Rue' will not list 'Rue de la
> Concorde'
>                 or 'Rue du Moulin'. It may list 'Rueben Brookins Road' if
> that is in the map.
>
>         Another effect is that the index is smaller.
>
>         The option specifies the path to a file which gives the details.
> See
>         comments in the sample roadNameConfig.txt for further details.
>
> Is that clear enough? Please check also the comments in the sample file.
> Please suggest improvements, else I'll use the same text for the style
> documentation before
> merging to trunk.
>
> Gerd
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