[mkgmap-dev] Some questions about POI's addresses

Thu Mar 26 15:08:51 GMT 2009

Hi Carlos,

first of all thanks for testing. Sorry I didn't found time to answer 
your questions earlier.
> *First I've noticed is that pois having is_in:region tag don't show
> region in nuvi. If region is taken from is_in rather that is_in:region
> it's a problem for countries like Spain, where information in this tag
> is completely erratic, i.e. you can find city, region, country,
> continent values in any order, some of them missing, separated by , or
> by ; etc. This way I can't find a way to set the region with
> regionOffset parameter in LocatorConfig.xml 
>   
You are right that the is_in tagging is not very reliable in most 
countries. I did the best to get reasonable results but on the long term 
the only solution is to fix the tags. Right now mkgmap supports the 
following formats:

   County, State, Country, Continent
   County, State, Country
   Continent, Country, State, County, ...

To make it working mkgmap needs to know the valid country keywords. This 
could be configured in LocatorConfig.xml. I have attached a version that 
contains entries for Spain.

Additionally I check for the following individual tags:

City -> addr:city
Zip  -> addr:postcode
Street -> addr:street
House Number -> addr:housenumber      
Phone -> phone     
Country -> is_in:country or addr:country
Region -> is_in:county

So I think you might want to use the is_in:county tag for your purposes. 
I support this tag since it existed in UK. I don't think that 
is_in:region is a wide used tag. Right now this stuff is hard coded in 
the method elementSetup of StyledConverter.java. I know that is not nice 
and should be part of a configuration file.
> *About poiDispFlag in LocatorConfig.xml: -> Address display format:
> Default is 0 - How does it display?
>   
The default 0 is US style I guess.

1252 MainStreet
New York 12544

I think UK uses the same notation ? Should we change the default ?

I use 0xc which fits for Germany:

Hauptstrasse 13
1000 Berlin
> *If I use template.args generated by splitter as -c argument for mkgmap,
> all pois (except road_name_pois) are duplicated; for those without
> address information in osm data one of the pois have "Fix my address"
> and city added and the other one not.
> This is my mkgmap command: java -Xmx500m -enableassertions -jar
> mkgmap.jar -c template.args --route --latin1 --code-page=1252
> --description="OpenStreetMap-Iberia" --gmapsupp --country-name=ESPAÑA
> --country-abbr=ESP --name-tag-list=ref,name --family-name="Open Street
> Map" --family-id=14 --product-id=314 --net --road-name-pois
> --ignore-osm-bounds --preserve-element-order --add-pois-to-areas
> --location-autofill=1 6*.osm.gz
>   
I think I see your problem. You have used the -c option and added the 
splitted osm files with 6*.osm.gz. I think the template.args already 
contains the files. I checked it and in GPSMapEdit it looks like 
everything (including lines and polygons) is duplicated in this map. If 
you remove the 6*.osm.gz option your img file should get also much 
smaller. For some reason you have to move the -c option to the end of 
your arguments. It looks like otherwise all other parameters are 
ignored. I have attached my creation script.

Thanks
Berni.
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