[mkgmap-dev] Unable to search for Address - GPSMAP64s

Thu Jul 23 08:57:40 BST 2020

Hi Andrew

Both my devices find>city shows names from some in-built map,
regardless of disabling the Basemap and renaming the supplied map: 
 GARMIN/GARMIN/gmapprom.img and .sum
on eTrex 30x

I think you just have to put up with it.

Ticker

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 06:38 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> did you already try with the bounds.zip for planet?
> Which address(es) do you search? Do you try a single place or
> various?
> Some hints for a test plan:
> For testing you should use a single file as input. If this works it
> is very likely that the complete map for Canada also works. You can
> use JOSM to download a small area around your place and try that or
> you can pick a single *.osm.pbf file produced by splitter.
> Make sure that the addresses you are searching are well mapped in
> that input file.
> 
> If you test with the device make sure to rename all other *.img files
> that you installed before to e.g. *.img_old to avoid conflicts with
> family-ids or map-ids.
> You may upload such a small gmapsupp.img to 
> http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/ and I can check if it works on my Oregon.
> 
> Gerd
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> von Andrew Morris <drew101 at shaw.ca>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2020 23:21
> An: Development list for mkgmap
> Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Unable to search for Address - GPSMAP64s
> 
> So after some digging (and testing is still ongoing) I *think* I may
> have figured out what is going on.  My use of the --country-abbr='CA'
> instead of --country-abbr='CAN' may have been marking the addresses
> as
> not Canadian and thus they weren't showing.  I've tried removing the
> option completely hoping mkgmap would pick it up from the metadata,
> but
> I don't think that worked.  I'm going to need to start doing a better
> test plan.  Right now I'm kind of spinning my wheels and I'm on like
> build 15.
> 
> Also there (at least in my opinion) is a bug in the firmware where if
> a
> map is disabled it shouldn't use that map file for address
> information,
> but it does.
> 
> I'll update as soon as I get some results.  Unfortunately this
> process
> is slow (around 40 minutes each try) and I get distracted with other
> things...
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion on the -c template.args and geonames
> -file
> options.  I'll give that a try on my next run.
> 
> On 07/20/20 06:35, Ticker Berkin wrote:
> > Hi Andrew
> > 
> > When you say you can't find cities, do you get a good list of
> > nearby
> > cities from the Find>Cities menu entry, and if you change this to
> > search-by-name, can you find all that you'd expect (ie non-basemap
> > ones).
> > 
> > When using Find>Address, do you get a sensible Country or Region
> > list
> > in the initial selection field, and have selected something, do you
> > get
> >   a list of Cities in the City selection field, similarly for
> > Street. On
> > my device I need to clear the house number field to get from this
> > point
> > to the list of addresses that I can then select (because most of my
> > addresses don't have housenumbers)
> > 
> > I see references to postal_code in your bounds processing. I don't
> > think you are going to get anything sensible to happen by default
> > relating to Canadian postcodes; I think Garmin ZipCode handling
> > only
> > deals with numerics.
> > 
> > Unrelated suggestions are:
> > 
> >   Get the splitter to generate useful tile names with the
> >   --geonames-file=... option.
> > 
> >   Use these by having -c template.args rather than *.osm.pbf
> > 
> >   Have the global --description at the end, after the above.
> > 
> >   Beware of --split-name-index.
> > 
> >   --link-pois-to-ways is a good option.
> > 
> >   --code-page=1252 if you need French names with accents.
> > 
> > See {mkgmap-rel}/examples/sample.cfg
> > 
> > Ticker
> > 
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