[mkgmap-dev] Suggestions for roadNameConfig.txt

Mon Dec 16 11:30:06 GMT 2019

Hi Ticker,

reg. search: You are probably right, address search works very different on the Garmin devices. On the Oregon, I have several dialogs, first to chose country, next to chose city or "all", next to type house number, last one asking for road name. In this dialog there is no autocompletion, I just have to type characters. Sometimes the device switches automatically to a result list while I am typing, sometimes it doesn't. When I press OK I get a list of matching roads.
So, for the Oregon it works fine. Maybe it doesn't for those devices with auto-completion. Cannot test this right now. I tried it once with a Nüvi and it seemed to work well, but I don't own one.

Reg. combination of   --road-name-config and --split-name-index: Yes, this gives confusing results. Not sure if it worked better in the past.
I tried with Essex extract:
java -jar d:\mkgmap\dist\mkgmap.jar --bounds=f:\osm\bounds.zip --gmapi --net --index  --road-name-config=d:\mkgmap\resources\roadNameConfig.txt --gmapsupp --split-name-index f:\dwnload\temp\essex-latest.osm.pbf

According to Mapsource a search for "Mace" without giving a city name should list "John Mace Road", "Mace Avenue", "Mace Court", and "Mace Walk", maybe in a different order.
Without your patch I  get a list showing "Mace Road", "Mace Avenue", and "Mace Walk", so "Mace Court" is missing and when I select "Mace Road" the device shows the "John Mace Road".
With your patch this gets worse: The list shows only "Mace Road", when I select that entry I get a new list containing ",Thurrock","Braintree,Essex","Chelmsford,Essex", and "Colchester, Essex". Each of them points to just one of the expected roads.

Results look much better when I specify a city name.
Result also looks very different without the --split-name-option.
I have to do more tests, I think it worked better in the past. Maybe sorting is broken.

Gerd

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Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Gerd Petermann <gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2019 11:50
An: Ticker Berkin; Development list for mkgmap
Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Suggestions for roadNameConfig.txt

Hi Ticker,

reg. your comments in http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2019q1/029506.html:
I think you missed the words "On the PC" in this sentence?
        - On the PC, when zooming out, the name 'Rue de la Concorde' is only
                rendered as 'Concorde'.

I just verified that this still works (with the unpatched config) but the effect is barely visible with english names. In Mapsource the switch happens when zooming out to a map scale of "500m".

I'll try the effects on road search later...

Gerd

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Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2019 10:46
An: Development list for mkgmap
Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Suggestions for roadNameConfig.txt

Hi

I have suggestions for changes to the English. Patch attached but the
relevant lines are:

# english
# Not good to have prefixes; in UK they are considered as the first
part of the street name.
#prefix1:en = "East ", "North ", "South ", "West "
# Having suffixes makes Find>Address less easy to use on some GPS
devices! See posting 21-Feb-2019:
#  http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2019q1/029506.html
suffix:en = " Arcade", " Avenue", " Circus", " Close", " Court", "
Crescent", " Croft", " Drive", " Field", " Fields", " Gardens", "
Gate", " Grove", " Hill", " Lane", " Mews", " Parade", " Park", "
Passage", " Place", " Rise", " Road", " Square", " Street", " Terrace",
" View", " Villas", " Walk", " Way", " Wood", " Yard"

Ticker

On Sat, 2019-12-14 at 14:03 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> thanks, committed with r4394
>
> Gerd
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> von Alexandre Folle de Menezes <afmlistas at terra.com.br>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Dezember 2019 23:53
> An: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Suggestions for roadNameConfig.txt
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some suggestions to improve Portuguese handling on
> roadNameConfig.txt:
>
> # portugese
> prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa", "Alameda", "Beco",
> "Estrada",
> "Rodovia"
> prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "de ", "das ", "dos ", "d'"
>
> # Section 2
>
> lang:AGO = pt
> lang:BRA = pt
> lang:GNB = pt
> lang:MOZ = pt
>
> Best regards,
>
>      Alexandre
>
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