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

Wed Feb 4 10:06:00 GMT 2009

Mark Burton escribió:
> Hi Carlos,
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the feedback - please do say if you think it could be improved.
>   
I have to test it further, maybe fake points could appear less visible
on screen, they can confuse someone.
> At the moment, it finds the city nearest to the road name poi but that
> doesn't always give the "best" result. Consider, you could have a road that
> lies mostly near city A but, by chance, the poi ends up nearer some
> other city (B). In that case, the road name will be suffixed with B
> rather than A as you would expect. I am not sure it's worth the effort
> to fix this.
>   
I think this case won't be very often. Could be used is-in instead of
near as criteria to name road pois?
> Yes, until (if ever) the "find address" function is implemented, it does
> provide a basic street search capability and it will work on any gps that
> supports find poi by name. Cheap and cheerful, as they say.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark