[mkgmap-dev] FW: mkgmap in NYC

Sat Oct 25 01:29:18 BST 2014

Thanks Ben. I'll try it out next week.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:52 PM Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:

> Brian: Address search in the US map from 2014.10.23 should now works for
> New York. I've tested it in simulation mode but it would be great if you
> could test it out to confirm it's working as well. Thanks for pointing out
> the issue.
>
> Gerd: I've attached a patch that I'm using to fix the New York address
> search. I've also included a small change in Canada and the US which
> removes the 'City of' in front of city names when it's there. Nobody uses
> the official 'City of' form of city names so it doesn't make sense to have
> it in the default style. Let me know if there are any issues.
>
> Thanks, Ben
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Gerd Petermann <
> gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just noticed that I sent this to Greg only...
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com
>> To: gdt at ir.bbn.com
>> Subject: RE: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap in NYC
>> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:25:45 +0200
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I thought about this. The precompiled bounds contain the needed info,
>> it is the LocationHook that fills the tags like mkgmap:admin_level6.
>> The LocationHook uses the --name-tag-list option to decide which
>> value is used.
>> It would be possible to fill an additional set of tags like
>> mkgmap:admin_level-alt-2 .. mkgmap:admin_level-alt-11,
>> but I don't see much use in this.
>> If I got it right, all we need for New York are a five rules like this:
>> mkgmap:country=USA & mkgmap:city!=* & mkgmap:admin_level5=New York City
>> &
>> mkgmap:admin_level6=New York County { set mkgmap:city=Manhattan }
>> mkgmap:country=USA & mkgmap:city!=* & mkgmap:admin_level5=New York City
>> &
>> mkgmap:admin_level6=Kings County { set mkgmap:city=Brooklyn }
>> ...
>>
>> With the additional alt_name values it would be one rule like this:
>> mkgmap:country=USA & mkgmap:city!=* & mkgmap:admin_level5=New York City
>> {set mkgmap:city='${mkgmap:admin_level-alt-6}' }
>> (note that the rule doesn't check if the alt-name is filled)
>>
>> Are there more places where this could be used?
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> > From: gdt at ir.bbn.com
>> > To: gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com
>> > CC: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
>> > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] mkgmap in NYC
>> > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:37:36 -0400
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Gerd Petermann <gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > [1] This is because we use so called "precompiled boundaries", and
>> changing them like that would
>> > > require hard coded rules in the source.
>> >
>> > That might be the right place to fix this. Unfortunately New York
>> > really is a weird case (I don't know of any other such case in the US),
>> > but arguably it's important because a lot of people live there :-)
>>
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