[mkgmap-dev] address search in Nuvi broken

Tue Jul 22 10:12:50 BST 2014

On 21/07/14 13:48, Michał Rogala wrote:
> So, after a lot of trial and error it seems that this bug is not related
> to differences between commits. I supposed that --latin1 switch is
> implicit, but if my options omit this parameter address search doesn't
> work. If I use --latin1 explicitly, everything works fine.

Yes, latin1 is not the default, although we did decide that it should
be some time ago, so I shall go ahead and do it.

> This problem only occurs on Nuvi. GPSMap is not affected.

Without --latin1, the labels are stored in a compressed 6 bit format
that is upper case only.  I did wonder if it would work with the
index, but it seems to for mapsource so I allowed it.  It is quite
plausible that it doesn't work with some devices though.

..Steve