[mkgmap-dev] change inc/address to be a standalone ?

Thu Apr 16 08:28:52 BST 2015

On Thu, Apr 16, Gerd Petermann wrote:

> Hi Thorsten,
> 
> okay, I think I understand now. You don't use
> any of the possible tricks in your style, but
> you don't want to loose the possibility to do it. 
> Right?

No, I already use some of the tricks to prevent that
inc/address set mkgmap:street is set wrongly due to bad
tagging.
I can workaround them, but yes, I don't want to loose
the possibility to fix them.

  Thorsten

> I think that is a good point against my proposal.
> 
> Gerd
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:08:22 +0200
> > From: kukuk at suse.de
> > To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] change inc/address to be a standalone ?
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 16, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Thorsten,
> > > 
> > > my thinking was that inc/address does not set any 
> > > tags which are not prefixed with mkgmap:
> > > I see that your inc/address is a bit different to that in the default style,
> > > but the only significant difference that I found is this rule:
> > > mkgmap:country=DEU | mkgmap:country=AUT | mkgmap:country=CHE {set style:lang=german}
> > > 
> > > So, I see no problem as your inc/address also doesn't set name or place_name.
> > > 
> > > What do I miss?
> > 
> > This were only examples, the result is used by me to set mkgmap:street
> > in some cases to prevent inc/address from setting it (workaround for some
> > bad tagging, where people add addr:street to a highway, e.g.).
> > 
> > So in this special case I could add:
> > highway=* & name=* & addr:street=* {delete addr:street} 
> > to address, but I'm afraid that we loose a lot of flexible to
> > "fix" wrong data by rules. And I'm not sure if adding the workarounds
> > from points/lines/polygons to address is really always a good thing
> > or can work.
> > 
> >   Thorsten
> > 
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