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

Thu May 5 18:35:26 BST 2011

The locator branch is in an early alpha status. Such small optimizations 
can be added later on when the main problems are solved.

WanMil

> 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?)
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