[mkgmap-dev] Bug: Address search and opposite cycleway

Tue Mar 11 21:53:22 GMT 2014

>
> Hi WanMil,
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, WanMil wrote:
>
>> mkgmap:street is only used for house number matching while compiling the
>> maps.
>
> I found the bug:
>
> stripStreetName() in HousenumberGenerator.java removes the
> "(cylceway)" for comparing the streets.
> That's of course wrong, because now "Sandwall (cycleway)"
> matches "Sandwall", but this are two different streets.
>
> I don't know why you are removing text in brackets here,
> but I think that's not correct. If somebody wants to do that
> for his map, he can do this in his style.
> But it is impossible to workaround this bug in the style.
>
>    Thorsten
>

Hi Thorsten,

good catch! Stripping the text within brackets is a relict from the time 
when mkgmap automatically assigned name="${name} (${ref})" and
the mkgmap:street tag did not exist. That was before merging the 
mergeroads branch.

I will have a look on it tomorrow.

WanMil