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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Andrzej,<br><br><br><div>> not much help from me, but some observations.<br>> <br>> If you add a name to a road, then it will be visible on GPS. I find it <br>> quite interesting, to know place name on nuvi, displayed as a road. But <br>> it would be wrong, if road would have names outside village area. So <br>> your algorithm should limit names to area near buildings.<br>Good point. I'll try to implement that, but I see some possible problems <br>with the current data flow.<br><br>> <br>> If road has no name but ref number, it is usually displayed as a shield <br>> with number. I would prefer to preserve this shield. You could for <br>> example add place name as secondary label after finalize stage. Actually <br>> you could do it for a road with proper name too.<br>Yes, tried that (the latte) already. Have not found a solution that shows<br>the right name in address search and name+shield on the map.<br>I think you found the same result.<br>I'll try again with roads that only have a ref if I find a way to split <br>roads.<br><br>> Building with addr:place are usually scattered at random. If you add <br>> numbers to multiple road segments, you can create layout, where GPS <br>> interpolating numbers will finds the same number in multiple segments.<br>In the branch mkgmap has a detection for this "random" case and<br>it creates no interpolation numbers when the random case is detected. <br><br>> <br>> In my opinion, addr:place is a good candidate for point addressing. I <br>> have written about it: create short line at the point coordinates and <br>> attach house number and place name to it.<br>I thought about this and I think it doesn't work in maps which support<br>routing. If fear when I add "invisible" and roads and don't add them to the<br>routing network routing to such an address will not work.<br>Maybe I'll try that out when the rest is done.<br><br>Gerd<br></div> </div></body>
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