[mkgmap-dev] Suggestion for more flexibility in locator part of mkgmap

Thu Jul 28 14:05:14 BST 2011

Hi,

Countries like Ireland have a lot of small cities, villages, etc, for which an admin_level boundary is inappropriate.  
Instead, they may have a place=village boundary or something else like that. If  I understand correctly, when  
--location-autofill=bounds is used, then only admin_level boundaries will be picked up when trying to assign a 
city for example.  If --location-autofill=bounds,nearest is used then it will use the nearest rule when an object is 
not inside an appropriate admin_level boundary.  That all sounds fine, except for when the nearest "city" node is 
inappropriate.

To make the locator part of mkgmap more flexible, would it be possible to have the style file(s) dictate that a 
mkgmap:city tag is assigned to an object when it lies inside a place=village boundary (for example), as long as 
it is not also (superseded) by being in an admin_level=8 boundary?

For your convenience, here is a list of our admin_boundaries http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Boundaries#Boundary_Types

Thanks,
Cliff
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