[mkgmap-dev] improving address search

Sun May 26 09:01:55 BST 2013

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Minko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that a small difference in the name label between the
> address node and the street name will result in a not found
> housenumber.
> 
> For instance if the address has a tag addr:street="Main Street" and on
> OSM the highway itself is labeled with name=Mainstreet. Is it possible
> for mkgmap to ignore the spaces when matching the address to a nearby
> street?

This needs to corrected in the data - Geofabrik has an excellent
Adress debugging view for exactly this issue.

And its even fixable in seconds.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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