[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] POI Addresses for areas

Sun Mar 8 16:44:32 GMT 2009

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Bernhard Heibler <bernhard at heibler.de> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> this order is controlled by the poi display flag in the TRE header. The
> possible values are:
>
> 0x0 -> Housenumber Streetname, City Zip
> 0x4 -> Streetname Housenumber, City Zip
> 0x8 -> Housenumber Streetname, Zip City
> 0xc -> Streetname Housenumber, Zip City
>
> You should be able to control this flag per country in
> resources/LocatorConfig.xml with the poiDispFlag tag. Default is 0x0. For
> Germany, Austria and Switzerland I have set the poi display flag to 0xc. I
> just checked with with my Nuvi the order looks ok for Germany.

That would explain everything.  I have not set the country code in my
last tests.  I wonder, why not to use addr:country for that?
and in case it is not present look up is_in field in neighbouring City
of addr:city name...   Yeah... much more easily said (written) than
done, but still worth thinking about.

I am relatively often traveling across country boundaries, so setting
one country code for the whole Europe seems not appropriate to me.
In the case of address presentation I have seen only "Street_name
House_number, Zip City" in my life... so for now I can go with 0xc.

In any case I would go strongly against setting anything
country-dependend on a global or tile basis, unless the tiles may be
cut exactly at the borders, which is not the case at the moment
(splitter/routing).

Thanks for the explanation,

Paul

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