[mkgmap-dev] "set name" and Address search

Tue May 3 15:24:11 BST 2011

It is really practical for driving instructions, to add stuff like

/{set name='snowpark ${name}' | 'snowpark'}/

However in most cases, this is not wanted to be taken over to the 
address search. There ideal solution would be to have 3 modi:

1. set mkgmap:name ....=meaning, this name will only be used for the 
streetname, but not for the address search index
2. set name ...= current behaviour
3. set copy:name ...=take both the original and the new name into the 
address search.

For 1. & 2. I hope they are easy to implement, and think it is really 
needed.

For 3. I think there would need to be some more thought - probably more 
complicated, but could be nice to have. I would want to use it to have 
multilingual address search, but I don't know how much and what is 
possible. Currently I use this for cities, so cities are findable in the 
city poi search both under their local name, and under their english 
name. Even better would be of course, If I were able to find 12 
Teststreet, Vienna, Austria, but also 12 Teststraße, Wien, Österreich 
but dunno whether this is acutally possible and won't blow up the index 
too much.
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