[mkgmap-dev] Commit r3971: - roadNameConfig_v1.patch by Carlos Davida which adds more countries and languages

Wed Jun 14 19:58:50 BST 2017

Yes, I know. I just wanted to mention there are a few occurrences of 
them in Portuguese. I don't think including them will cause too much 
processing time penalty.

El 14/06/17 a las 20:17, Alexandre Loss escribió:
> Hi Carlos,
> These are most common prefixes for Spanish language.
> [],
> Loss
>
> 2017-06-14 15:14 GMT-03:00 Carlos Dávila <cdavilam at orangecorreo.es 
> <mailto:cdavilam at orangecorreo.es>>:
>
>     Working on "Avenida" prefix (shared between Spanish and
>     Portuguese) I also found a few cases with "de las", "del , "d'",
>     "el ", "la " in Brazil and/or Portugal
>
>     El 14/06/17 a las 20:03, Alexandre Loss escribió:
>
>         Hi Carlos,
>
>         In our project here in Brazil (tracksource.org.br
>         <http://tracksource.org.br> <http://tracksource.org.br>), we
>         started using this new feature with the following configuration:
>         # portuguese
>         prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa", "Alameda", "Beco",
>         "Praça", "Rotatória", "Via", "Viela", "Estrada"
>         prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "de ", "das ", "dos ", "para "
>
>         Gradually and with more tests we should consider the expansion
>         to other prefixes.
>         With this configuration we obtained a 27 MB reduction in the
>         size of our index file (whole Brazil).
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Loss
>
>         2017-06-14 14:38 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Folle de Menezes
>         <afmlistas at terra.com.br <mailto:afmlistas at terra.com.br>
>         <mailto:afmlistas at terra.com.br <mailto:afmlistas at terra.com.br>>>:
>
>             Fine then, my mistake.  But I still would like to have the
>         title
>             corrected ("Portug_u_ese") and "Beco" added.
>
>             Also, I am not sure if "Estrada" and "Rodovia" should be added
>             (both mean "Road").  I am currently using both on my maps, but
>             they since are not common in urban areas, I am not sure
>         what the
>             convention is.
>
>             Best regards,
>
>                 Alexandre
>
>             Em 14/06/2017 13:24, Gerd Petermann escreveu:
>
>                 Hi,
>                 I think with the current code the order really doesn't
>             matter.
>                 That is also mentioned in the comments.
>                 Ciao Gerd
>
>                 ---- Alexandre Folle de Menezes schrieb ----
>
>                 Hola Carlos,
>
>                 I see that you are listing the prefixes in alphabetic
>             order.  I
>                 believe it would be way more efficient to put the most
>             common
>                 prefixes first.
>
>                 For Portuguese, that would be (as I suggested in a
>             previous message):
>
>                 -# portugese
>                 -prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa"
>                 -prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "de ", "das ", "dos "
>                 +# portuguese
>                 +prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa", "Alameda",
>             "Beco"
>                 +prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "das ", "dos ", "de ", "d'"
>                 Saludos,
>
>                     Alexandre
>
>                 Em 13/06/2017 18:19, Carlos Dávila escreveu:
>
>                     El 12/06/17 a las 06:22, svn commit escribió:
>
>                         Version mkgmap-r3971 was committed by gerd on
>                     Mon, 12 Jun 2017
>
>                         - roadNameConfig_v1.patch by Carlos Davida
>                     which adds more
>                         countries and languages
>                         - Improve comments
>
>                     Attached is version 2 of roadNameConfig.patch
>                     I'm working in the completion of roadNameConfig
>                 file. I think if
>                     I could somehow get a file with the list of road
>                 names in a map
>                     I could advance faster in this task. Is there any
>                 tool to get it
>                     in the display project?
>
>
>