[mkgmap-dev] Handling of refs

Sun Jun 2 16:19:46 BST 2013

Am 01.06.2013 19:28, schrieb Felix Hartmann:
> okay, just make it clear what happens if in the style the plain "name"
> is changed. Does it affect the address search? Does it affect the label
> only? Does it affect the popup only?
In general it would be very nice and useful, if every change to name (or 
however the tag is called in the end) is handled by every 
mkgmap-operation as written in style-file. Maybe therefor it's 
neccesarry to have a special name-file ( in addition to lines, 
points,...). Each process working with names could take a look into this 
special file and takes in the end the tag name (or however called) as 
the name.
This also would be completly compatible for existing styles. If there is 
no such style-file, name-Tag would be used. This also would make 
name-tag-list obsolet.

Why is it useful?

Eg. European Garmin-devices and their users would have problems entering 
an arabic or chinese town-name in adress-surch. So you can extend the 
name with name:en (which are mostly sign-posted too) and the English 
name is eays surchable.

Henning