[mkgmap-dev] Map installation problem from r1971 onward

Wed Jul 27 19:09:49 BST 2011

Clifford,

I have checked the boundary status of Ireland.

It's completely covered with admin_level 2,5 and 6. admin_level 7 is 
used only for one big region around Dublin. The other admin_levels are 
used sporadically only. So you seem to be right, that the irish 
admin_level data in OSM is not sufficient for address mapping.

Do you know if the city areas are mapped with other tags in Ireland? It 
might be possible to integrate that into the preprocessed bounds files.

So long if you create a map for Ireland only it seems to be the best 
case to use --location-autofill=nearest,is_in

WanMil

> Martin,
>
> Sorry, just to clarify, --location-autofill does produce a searchable
> map alright it's just that it is not very useful - streets can only be
> found by using search all cities option and when one looks up cities,
> all sorts of (nonsensical) things have been assigned cities. This seems
> to indicate that admin levels in Ireland are not useful for the
> autofilling improvements at the moment.
>
> Cliff
>
> On 27 Jul 2011, at 13:38, Clifford Nolan wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Unfortunately, all I seem to be able to do is use the
>> --location-autofill=nearest option. So I don't seem to be able to take
>> advantage of the new improvements. I did create preprocessed .bnd
>> files using the --createboundsfile option on my 6*obm.pbf files, but
>> then using --location-autofill (defaulting to the latterly created
>> bounds directory) does not produce a searchable map on Basecamp or
>> GPS. Perhaps this is explained by the admin boundary status at
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#admin_level
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cliff
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2011, at 12:29, Clifford Nolan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> I don't know whether this is correct or not but it worked … I
>>> downloaded and unzipped a file called europe from
>>> http://www.navmaps.eu/wanmil/and added --bounds=europe to my mkgmap
>>> call to get rid of an error regarding bounds. I can now transfer a
>>> searchable map to my gps unit from my mac again :)
>>>
>>> Does that sound about right?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Cliff
>>
>
>
>
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