[mkgmap-dev] Garmin Nuvi asks province

Thu Jul 30 16:12:45 BST 2009

Valentijn Sessink escribió:
> Hi,
>
> A bit of a strange thing: my Garmin mkgmap maps ask the "provincie"
> (Province? State? County? Whatever you guys call it over there ;) when I
> want to route to an address.
>
> I normally build my map with country="Netherlands" and country-abbr=NL,
> I also tried no country and abbrev, but it keeps asking for a
> "Provincie". Whatever I enter, Garmin can't find it and this makes
> routing to an address pretty much infeasible. On the regular map, it
> just asks me if I'm in the Netherlands and then I can enter street and
> city names.
>
> java -enableassertions -Xmx1800m -jar
> ~/garmintest/mkgmap/dist/mkgmap.jar --country-name="" --country-abbr=""
> --family-name="Openstreetmap Netherlands `date -I`" --latin1
> --remove-short-arcs --lower-case --preserve-element-order
> --location-autofill=1 --gmapsupp --route --net --tdbfile -c template.args
>
> What am I doing wrong? I guess this is just a wrong option somewhere?
>
> Valentijn
>
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>   
AFAIK mkgmap is unable to get this feature working by now. To find an
address you can use an alternative way: try the "Spelling" option to
introduce the name of the street. I hope this help.
Regards
Carlos