[mkgmap-dev] multi-word street search

Mon Feb 25 20:55:32 GMT 2013

On 2013-02-25 22:43, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>
>> two forms - long one:
>>
>> Miroslawa Dudka
>>
>> or short one:
>>
>> Dudka
>>
>> there is no standard for tagging such names in OSM.
>>
>> Problem is that Garmin/Mapsource search function is matching names from
>> the beginning of the string, so if I enter "Dudka" it will find all
>> streets named "Dudka" but not "Miroslawa Dutka".
>>
>> Do you have any idea how can I deal with such issue?
>
> There is no simple answer to this at the moment.
>
> I do plan to implement the possibility of adding names
> to the index where searching starts in the middle of the
> string.
>
> This is a problem with languages where the word for street is
> typically at the beginning of the name, such as french.
>
> The case for Poland is a bit different if I understand correctly
> in that you would want to search for both "Miroslawa Dutka"
> and just "Dutka"?
>
> Also if there is no standard for tagging them, and no way of
> recognising them, then how would mkgmap know that it should treat
> them specially?

it might require implementing a list of "street" names for each country. 
in many cases for streets named after some person people would want to 
refer to it by both first and last name, but "street" wouldn't be useful 
at all

> Best wishes
> ..Steve
-- 
  Rich