[mkgmap-dev] Improved street search in index branch

Sat Jan 22 11:26:52 GMT 2011

Hi

Thanks for testing.

It looks like things are pretty good for small and medium sized maps.

Did send to device fail for 1 & 2 tiles or did you just not try? I ask 
because I haven't tried it since the last round of changes, but I know 
that prior to the last round of changes there was a problem with a small 
map.

> (1) Only places tagged in the form is_in=province,region,country. Those
> with complete is_in:province, is_in:region, is_in:country tagging are
> not found.

I can't find any place where is_in:province or is_in:region is used in 
mkgmap. So is probably just a case of supporting those tags, and not 
index related.

On the other hand it should be possible to search for a city that does 
not have a region; it does have to have a region or a country, but there 
is a default country name ("ABC" if you don't set it in the commands).

> (2) Missing all streets beginning by "Calle" before "Calle Real ..."

I suspect (like Johann) that having so many streets beginning with the 
same letters is confusing. But surely it is confusing to humans too? How
are Spanish street directories normally indexed, do you normally ignore 
the "Calle" and then sort on the rest? It seems like this is possible in 
the Garmin format, but not something we have done.

> (3) In the search results listed region information is missing.

OK, noted.

Best wishes
..Steve