[mkgmap-dev] Search addresses for latin countries (help on reg exp)

Mon Aug 5 20:50:16 BST 2013

Steve you are the man! I'm rebuilding my map now. By the way, I believe
that indexing just the last word make more sense to avoid a lot of useless
entries, since words in the middle are usually first names or prepositions.
I'll have a try and let you know. Thanks!

Enrico

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk>wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> > Folks, as you know – this comes up time to time –  address search is
> > unpractical in most Latin countries where the street/square name usually
> > starts with the type  (Via, Viale,Corso,  Piazza etc [IT];  Avenida,
> > Calle, Plaza etc [ES];  Avenue, Boulevard, Rue, Place etc [FR] etc.)
> > followed by the full name of  - usually - the person naming the street.
> > Nevertheless the street names sometime appears abbreviated (V.le,
> >   Av.da, Bld.  etc),  sometime the Middle name is skipped, sometime the
> > work “of” is used (Avenue de Bobigny, Corso del Popolo etc)
> >
>
> The Garmin index format has a way of dealing with this problem and
> earlier this year I made a branch that creates an index with the extra
> information to show where the interesting part of the name starts.
>
> The latest version indexes every word in the name separately so you
> could find 'corso del popolo' by typing 'corso' , 'del' or 'popolo'.
>
> So this will always work for any language, but at the cost of a
> much larger index.
>
> It would be great if someone could try it out as it is, then
> if useful, its more likely that someone would improve it. By
> devising a suitable way to cut down the useless entries.
>
> Download it as mkgmap-mixed-index-r2662.jar at the bottom of the download
> page.
>
> > So what is a simple Mozartstrasse in Austria would look like “Via
> > Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in Italy or “Rue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in
> > France but possibly also “Av.da de Mozart” etc.
> >
> > Now, everyone knows the street/square by its last name and it would be
> > much more practical to search by it:  I’d like to have a style that just
> > pick the last full word of the street/square name and put it as a suffix
> > followed by a comma and the original name.
> >
> > This would really boost address search for Latin countries – so it might
> > be a default style to add to IT, FR, ES, BR, MX… etc).
> >
> > Could you help me on making that regular expression for the style?
> >
> > “str1 str2… strN” -> “strN, str1 str2… strN”
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Enrico
> >
> >
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