[mkgmap-dev] Country specific rules and default country / region or "--country-name=..."

Thu May 5 18:23:09 BST 2011

Could the locator version be changed in such a way, that there are 
options to set the country and region using commandline/variables (and 
then drop all processing for country/region).
I'm not sure if there is a difference between default country and actual 
country, but if there is then there should be different commands than 
the current --country-name= --country-abbr= area-name=

This would be more than useful when using a geofabrik extract from a 
country or from a region (e.g. German Bundesland, or English/French 
state). That way it would save processing time, and be probably more 
correct (the very small errors in the geofabrik polygons defining the 
area, don't matter, as one does not expect to search for addresses 
outside of the country / region).

(or is this implemented already, because on the trunk the --country=ABC 
seems not to be used, or worse I suspect that the 
--geonames-file=cities15000 from splitter and it's joining are used 
(which places addresses outside of the country, if close to a big city 
but belonging to another region -- or do I have to drop the geonames 
file if using locator branch?)