[mkgmap-dev] Description text

Fri Apr 16 06:53:31 BST 2010

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:52:41PM +0200, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:
>I think here could be (new) functions like "p.getWebsite" and so on called.

I think that it would be better to use the mkgmap: name space for it.
The style definition would translate the attributes to, say,
mkgmap:description, and the core of mkgmap would copy that attribute to the 
Garmin format.

>> I found one oddity last year: addr:housenumber='12-14' (should
>> probably be 12;14 in the OSM notation) was displayed as "12 Apt 4" if
>> I remember correctly. Also, I find the English-style order of
>> "housenumber street" and "city zip" backwards. To my knowledge,
>> continental Europe uses "street housenumber" and "zip city".
>>
>Perhaps these were incorrectly tagged?

No, I am seeing this for all POIs, and the 12-14 was something that I tagged 
myself.  Say, I have an address

Hauptstraße 1
12345 Musterstadt

It will be displayed as

1 Haupstraße
Musterstadt 12345

Are you seeing the same? If I remember correctly, I saw it in this format in 
the gmapsupp.img too.

>> I think that the correct way to implement the translation would be via the
>> style file. The style file would compose a mkgmap:description from the
>> addr:*, phone, opening_hours, website, url, description and whatnot, based on
>> the type of the POI as needed.  Are there any fixed fields, such as phone
>> number encoded in some special format?
>>
>I think that that would be too much.
>It would be better (IMHO) to just expand a little the existing code and
>leave the style files as they are.
>The benefit would be, that millions of style-file users would have to do
>nothing.

Are there really that many style files in circulation?  For backward 
compatibility, we could keep the old behaviour when no mkgmap:description 
attribute exists.  Anyone who wants anything fancier will tweak the style 
file or use the default style.

	Marko