[mkgmap-dev] city of riga not found

Fri Mar 1 04:54:15 GMT 2013

On 2013-02-28 23:30, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> On 28/02/13 19:01, Rich wrote:
>> On 2013-02-14 14:01, Minko wrote:
>>> Rich, on OSM I see name = Rīga with an accent on the i
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/26707967
>>> Maybe therefore it will not recognize Riga. If you compile your maps with name:en before name it will find it?
>>> --name-tag-list=name:en,int_name,name
>>
>> i didn't try that yet, but all place names are converted to ascii
>> anyway. for example, searching for "meza" does find "Mežaparks".
>>
>> i just tried the map from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ , and i can
>> not find riga on it either...
>>
>
> What, exactly, do you mean by it not recognizing Riga?
>
> I downloaded the two tiles around Riga from garmin.openstreetmap.nl.
>
> The city itself was easily found.
>
> What does happen is if you search for a street eg "Elizabetes
> Iela" it is classed as being in the city of "Centrs" in the region
> "Riga". Likewise if you try to enter riga in the city field of the
> address search it is not found there.
>
> If that is what you mean, then it is probably that the wrong admin
> level is selected when creating the boundary files, so the streets
> are being allocated to suburbs/disticts rather than the city itself.
> Since Riga is a capital city it may be an exception to the normal case.

ah, streets being assigned to suburbs seems likely... is there maybe 
some easy solution (that does not involve modifying osm data :) )

> ..Steve
-- 
  Rich