[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] Reworked road name pois now supports both OSM and PM files

Wed Feb 4 09:17:02 GMT 2009

Mark Burton escribió:
> Folks,
>
> Undeterred by the lack of comment or feedback, I offer this new patch
> for your consideration.
>
> This version suffixes the road names with the name of the nearest
> "city". That helps when finding a road by name as you can differentiate
> between the roads that have the same name but are in different cities.
>
> To minimise space, I tried creating POIRecords to reference the cities
> but neither gpsmapedit or my etrex seemed to pay any attention to those
> so I fell back to simply suffixing the names of the roads with the city
> name.
I hadn't time to test your patch till now. It's great. Now I can search
by any street name in the map. Thanks Mark.
I think it would be good to get it merged in trunk as a workaround for
the "Find address" function not working till now.
Regards
Carlos