[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v10] - patch to support road find by name (now thinking about putting this in trunk)

Mon Mar 30 20:53:46 BST 2009

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:33:27PM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
> Well, we can get snow here way past Easter but not quite in the same
> league.

The spring is extraordinarily late this year.  A couple decades ago, we
used to have some snow even in May, but the last three winters were very
short, less than a month of permanent snow cover.  I still firmly believe
in global and local warming: also this winter, the permanent snow fell one
or two months later than normal, in January.

> I admit that I know nothing about how the intersection stuff works. The
> code we have been trying out simply outputs a data structure that lists
> the roads in alphabetic order.
> 
> By including that data in the map, the gps now shows the find by
> address and find intersection options. It's the gps that's finding the
> intersections, not mkgmap.

Sure.  Without using a debugger, it's like shooting in the dark.  Does
MapSource or some other software (not firmware) support these find options?
I only run GNU/Linux, so I don't know what MapSource does or what debuggers
can do on Windows.

I tried bicycle routing on my Edge 705 tonight, and it worked.  (With
the usual shortcomings: it didn't recalculate the route until I was
very much off the route.)  For all intents and purposes, your patch works.
Please commit it.  The current shortcomings can be documented on the wiki.

I'd like to release my next Garmin map of Finland with the street name
data, and I prefer to document the exact revisions of the tools used.
Uncommitted patches would complicate that.

Best regards,

	Marko