[mkgmap-dev] Feedback: Searchable Addresses (using r991)

Wed Apr 8 17:26:53 BST 2009

Some more feedback about address search, in nüvi:
When you select the Address option you're prompted for a State and a
button to spell state is presented. If you push it a list of states is
shown, but it's empty. Pushing "back" button leads you to a keyboard to
enter state name, but any letter you push sends you back to the empty
list with "No results found" message. The map I'm using to test is
generated with the option --country-name=ESPAÑA.
Can anyone with a nuvi confirm this behavior?
Steve Hosgood escribió:
> As others have commented - congratulations are in order for the guys
> who've got *any* of this feature working.
> I've got a Streetpilot i3, and some of it works, other bits don't.
>
> If you go to "Where To"/"Address" on the Streetpilot, you first have to
> enter a "City Name". It seems that this actually means "Conurbation
> Name" since you're not restricted to cities - you can select villages too.
>
> However - if you select "Swansea" as the city (and it is a city), you
> next get asked for a house number.You can just enter anything in here
> since OSM doesn't (yet) do house numbers. That takes you to the bit
> where you select the street, or partially enter the street name.
>
>
> This is where things start getting odd.
>
> The list of selectable street names consists of all the streets in all
> the towns on the map! So presumably, the internal organisation of the
> tables isn't quite right yet? I'd have thought I'd only get to see the
> streets in the "city" that I'd selected?
>
> Anyway - typically when you select one of these streets (even ones that
> *are* in your "city"), the machine reports "Not Found". But I've noticed
> that this isn't always the case - if the street is within about 500m of
> the "place=city" marker for your city, then the street can be found.
>
> However, I've seen cases where streets that come within even 400m of the
> "place=city" marker can't be found, so it may be that the first or last
> point in the street's "way" must be within 500m. I've not managed to
> find a consistent rule for this yet.
>
> Additionally, I've seen cases where the street-name completion doesn't
> work. There's a street in Swansea called "Marlborough Road", but by the
> time you've entered "MAR" the machine will report "No Match". However,
> the street *can* be found if you enter "MA" then step into the list it
> offers and use the scrollwheel to find it. Not sure why that should happen.
>
> Hopefully some of these observations might be useful...
> Nice work so far - it's looking promising!
> Steve
>
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