[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] - Do not write unnecessary POI information

Sat Apr 24 22:11:18 BST 2010

Am 19.04.2010 um 22:32 schrieb Charlie Ferrero:

> My tests suggest that only POIs in the range 0x2A00 to 0x32FF can carry 
> address information.

Hi Charlie,

could you elaborate on that? What tests did you do and with what kind of GPS/software? My experience with the Garmin stuff is that this needn't be the same over the whole model range...

Anyway, I've attached a patch with your range. This one should actually do what it is supposed to do.

What I found out while looking at the source is, that while country and region strings are only saved once and then shared between all entries, the POI entries itself are not shared, even if they are identical. From looking at the file format it should be possible to share the entries. This should save a lot of space if you have a default name for a lot of your POIs that don't have/display address info.

Regards
Thilo
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