[mkgmap-dev] Address search icon behavior varies in some gps units

Wed Mar 17 05:38:05 GMT 2010

Thanks! I asked the reporter to do this.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi Maning,
>
>> Just an FYI to the great mkgmap devs. :)  This feedback came from
>> someone using my OSM-PH garmin maps.
>>
>> In Garmin Nuvi 855 when you click the Address icon to search an
>> address, the popup message "No map data found." will immediately
>> appear. In other Garmin units like 205w and 265w you can enter the
>> city, street and house number.
>
> Would it work if you generated the map with mkgmap --index and transferred
> it from MapSource to the device?  As far as I understand, this would create
> a working MDR section in the gmapsupp.img.  It is not yet possible to generate
> a "device MDR" directly from mkgmap.  Steve just wrote about this a couple of
> days ago, asking for help.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/MDR_Subfile_Format
> (Sorry, the search works on my Edge 705, I am not going to invest time in it.)
>
> Best regards,
>
>        Marko
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maning
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