[mkgmap-dev] Address index for multi-country map

Mon Nov 4 19:18:23 GMT 2013

Hello Bernhard,

please post your style files and the mkgmap parameters you are using.

Thanks!
WanMil

> I try to build a map of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Czech Republic
> with a functional address index.
> I downloaded the Geofabrik extracts for those countries, combined them
> (after conversion to o5m format) with osmconvert, split them, and create
> the map.
>
> The result is quite mixed: some places show up below "Country" instead
> of Germany, e.g.
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Country
> - Spell City: Krummennaab
> - Enter Street Name: (stopped here, works)
> whilst
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Deutschland
> - Spell City: Krummennaab
> - No Results found
>
> Some places show up below "Deutschland", but (almost) no road is available:
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Deutschland
> - Spell City: Erlangen
> - Enter Street Name: (blank)
> - only "Buckenhofer Weg" available of a town with more than 100000
> inhabitants...
> whilst
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Country
> - Spell City: Erlangen
> - Enter Street Name: (blank)
> - lists many roads of the town
>
> Near my home in Bayreuth is "Geseeser Weg". I choose that example
> because that street name does not exist so often.
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Country
> - Spell City: (Search All)
> - Enter Street Name: Geseeser
> - No Results found
> but
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Deutschland
> - Spell City: (Search All)
> - Enter Strret Name: Geseeser
> - lists "Geseeser Straße" and "Geseeser Weg" - select the latter
> - Enter House Number: 1
> - lists "Geseeser Weg Altstadt Deutschland" and "Geseeser Weg
> Schnörleinsmühle". Since the part of Bayreuth is "Altstadt" (but no one
> would write that down as part of the address - it is Geseeser Weg 1,
> 95447 Bayreuth) select that
> - shows correctly on the map
>
> Let's try an example in Czeck Republic: Dukelská Ulica in Sokolov
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Ceská Republica
> - Spell City: Sokolov
> - No Results found
> but
> - Addresses
> - Spell Country: Country
> - Spell City: Sokolov
> - Enter Street name: Dukelská
> - Enter House Number: 1
> - shows correctly on the map
>
> I know that I can use command line parameters for mkgmap:
>      --country-name=Deutschland ^
>      --country-abbr=DEU ^
> but that's not approriate here: there are 4 different countries to deal
> with. Otherwise, the parameters do their job correctly.
>
> According to the documentation, the style file should help mkgmap
> determine the country, and both my lines and points files say on their top:
> include 'inc/address';
>
> How to solve this problem? Thanks for your hints.
>
>
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