[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v8] - alpha patch to support road find by name

Mon Mar 23 14:27:09 GMT 2009

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:10:16 +0100
Florian Lohoff <flo at rfc822.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:36:45PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
> > > A little nitpick (Its always possible to optimize something :) )
> > 
> > Nitpicks are fine.
> >  
> > > > +	// given a list of roads sorted by name and city, build a new
> > > > +	// list that only contains one entry for each group of roads
> > > > +	// that have the same name and city and are directly connected
> > > 
> > > As it happens i live in a street which is intersected by a roundabout.
> > > As the roundabout does not have the street name on it this will produce 
> > > multiple segments. So probably it should be directly connected
> > > or via a way with "junction=roundabout" ...
> > > 
> > > But this is just a little optimization probably for the next generation ;) 
> > 
> > I am sure that some people would prefer that the two roads are not
> > squashed together in that situation because it would "hide" one of the
> > roads and so they may think that the one road that has been shown
> > stops at the roundabout when, in reality, it carries on past the
> > roundabout. So, given that it's a bunch of work to implement and I'm not
> > convinced it would be universally popular, I will leave that for
> > someone else to add.
> 
> The point is when you have a long road you'd like the navi to select the
> right segment based on the housenumber. So when you are out of luck you
> select the wrong segment and wont find that specific housenumber.

Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying there.

Cheers,

Mark