[mkgmap-dev] Problem using housenumber option

Sat Feb 23 11:57:08 GMT 2013

Hi,
I've now compiled a Benelux map succesfully with the housenumber search.
In the errorlog (mkgmap-r2494) it reported housenumbers with fixme and streetnames 
(dont know if this is fixed already) but in general it can find most addresses.
I even merged the whole database of ALL streets+housenumbers for the Netherlands into
the OSM extract (so called BAG data from the Dutch Kadaster) and this went fine :-)

One issue is that Mapsource displays street,housenumber,province,country but not
street,housenumber,place,country and this is only for some addresses in this street.
Other addresses in the same street can find also the placename.

This BAG dataset that I merged with OSM contained the nodes with addr:housenumber and addr:street tags, but
maybe the search would improve if I added addr:city as well or is it an index problem?

> >    <tag k="addr:housenumber" v="055892500"/>
> 
> Thanks, that's in my part of the code. It is as you say probably not
> a real number and I don't know if numbers that big can be represented
> in the format or not. If they can't then I will just ignore it.
> 
> ..Steve