[mkgmap-dev] Inconsistent search function
From Carlos Dávila cdavilam at orangecorreo.es on Thu Nov 15 14:24:51 GMT 2012
El 14/11/12 23:41, Steve Ratcliffe escribió: > Hi > > >>> Mapsource and the devices do work very differently when it comes to >>> searching and it is possible that there is nothing that can be done >>> easily. >>> >> I'm aware of such differences, but I had not faced a case like this one >> before, with missing countries (can't type Cuba on nuvi 300 address >> search, so no address can be found in this country) or no POI findable >> at all (nuvi 3760). On the HCx I've discovered that "La Bodeguita del >> Medio" is included in the list of nearest POI displayed by device and >> you can select it, although if you try to spell it, it doesn't appear. >> > I believe that the differences are related to the change in r2335. > > That includes a change where if a POI does not have a city, but does > have a region, then a city without a name is created with the given > region. > > These cities are not included in the index as seen by mapsource > because they don't have a name. The device index is different, and so > the device can work out the region from the information in the img > file. > > I might be able to fix the index, so that uses the region of > a city that has no name. But I wonder if I am missing something. > In the index you can attach a POI to either a city or a region > directly with a flag and it makes sense that you could do > that in the img file too. I did check when the question came up, > because I had a bad feeling about cities with no name, but perhaps > I was was looking at street rather than POIs. > > With maps created before r2335, are the POIs findable on both > mapsource and the device or missing on both? I have compiled the map of Cuba with r2332 and noticed no difference neither on MapSource nor on HCx or nuvi 300. If you want to have a look at the map I can put it somewhere to download.
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