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

Mon Mar 23 15:44:38 GMT 2009

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:58:27 +0100
Florian Lohoff <flo at rfc822.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:27:09PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> You have a street where * is the roundabout
> 
> No   1-100           102-150
> --------------*--------------
>       A              B
> 
> Now you'd like to navigate to Streetname Number 130 - You search for
> the street and select segment A as it shows up multiple times. Then the
> user types number 130 - but you accidentally selected segment A which
> does not have number 130 - So how does the Nuevi and or GPSMap get into
> a dialog with the user?
> 
> I'd expect the software to sort it out which side of the roundabout i
> want to go to by me entering a housenumber which without knowing the
> internal Garmin format would mean to aggregate the segment A and B to
> a single street.

OK, I understand what you're saying now, thanks.

Well, given that we are not currently outputting house number info to
the gps yet, this seems rather speculative. Perhaps, if the house
number info was present, the GPS would be smart enough to only show A
or B (whichever was right for the given house number) so squashing them
together would probably not be helpful. Dunno really, just guessing.

When the house number info is there, hopefully, this will become more
obvious.

Cheers,

Mark