[mkgmap-dev] Searching cities

Tue Jul 2 18:28:44 BST 2013

Hi Carlos,
maybe it would be a good hackto change the word order. E.g. "Avenida 
..." => "..., Avenida"

Henning

Am 02.07.2013 17:51, schrieb Carlos Dávila:
> The maps are generated with --index parameter, the problem comes from
> names starting with the kind of way, such as Calle, Avenida, Avda. etc.
> It has been commented here some times and I think Steve have some ideas
> on how to fix it. As Felix says, it could be managed in the styles, but
> I think it's not a good idea, because I've seen some cities where you
> have the same name for an avenue, an street or a plaza and if you remove
> that words from the name you won't know which one is the one you are
> looking for.
>
> El 02/07/13 16:41, Felix Hartmann escribió:
>> Basic:
>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/doc/index.html
>>
>> well and then follow the link to the wiki - where you find all info.
>>
>> avda shouldn't be a problem, except that you have to enter if for
>> streets which have avda as part of their name (which is of course not
>> very practical - but could be solved in the style).
>> On 02.07.2013 16:15, Baltasar García Perez-Schofield wrote:
>>> 	Hi Felix,
>>>
>>> 	Thank you for answering, so soon.
>>> 	
>>>> steet search is working - maybe you forgot --index parameter? Or you
>>>> generated the gmapsupp.img in the same go as the .img files - then due
>>>> to memory constraints, by default no index will be generated in the
>>>> gmapsupp.
>>> 	I don't really know how the process was done. I simply downloaded the maps from:
>>>
>>> 	http://mapas.alternativaslibres.es/
>>>
>>> 	I contacted them and encoruaged me to contact you instead. I'm Spaniard, maybe the problem is that the streets are beginning with "avda." (Avenue) and so on.
>>>
>>> 	But maybe the problem comes from the process of generating the IMG file. Can you point me to any instructions from which I can generate the maps myself? That way I could just check it out.
>>>
>>> 	Cheers,
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