[mkgmap-dev] dropping place:village, hamlet, suburb in city search

Sat Feb 19 11:55:35 GMT 2011

Am 19.02.2011 12:14, schrieb Chris66:
> Am 19.02.2011 07:08, schrieb maning sambale:
>
>> The idea is to declutter the city search of these minor places and
>> just the actual city/town will be used to index streets and cities.
> There would be a disadvantage:
>
> I assume the assignment of streets to cities works by searching
> the nearest place-node.
>
> This works better if taking the village und suburbs into account
> because the density is higher.
>
> I'm a littlebit amused that nobody seems to fully understand
> the location-autofill algorithm. ;-)
>
> Sould look into the source code but java isn't my mother language...

I think it's better to spend this time to find a way to get these 
informations from the border-polygon and not waste time to analyse 
suboptimal code.

Henning