[mkgmap-dev] addr:street and street name matching for house number searchs

Tue Aug 18 08:34:09 BST 2015

Hi Carlos,

okay, thanks for the quick feedback. I'll try to find out more about the
possible special cases. 

Gerd

> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:12:16 +0200
> From: cdavilam at orangecorreo.es
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] addr:street and street name matching for house number searchs
> 
> Your patch caught 19293 lines of my log. Although those cases must also 
> be corrected in OSM data, they can now be put in a second priority 
> level, so +1 from me to commit the patch.
> Have you thought about including alt_name in the match search when 
> matching with name fails? I have found some cases where it can help.
> 
> El 17/08/15 a las 10:42, Gerd Petermann escribió:
> > Hi Carlos,
> >
> > today I revieved the source and found that my statement was
> > no longer true, mkgmap "knows" the roads and can ignore the
> > capitalization. My argument was based on a previous version in the
> > housenumber2 branch.
> > The attached patch will solve many, but probably not all cases.
> > Instead of
> > WARN: uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.osmstyle.housenumber.HousenumberRoad 
> > e:\osm_out_work\niedersachsen\20150810_082633\63240021.o5m: found no 
> > plausible road for address Am kleinen Esch 1D(0) 
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1601720743
> >
> > it will now print
> > WARN: uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.osmstyle.housenumber.HousenumberGenerator 
> > e:\osm_out_work\niedersachsen\20150810_082633\63240021.o5m: accepting 
> > match in spite of different capitalization Am Kleinen Esch 1D 
> > (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43561741) house: 
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1601720743
> > and it will use the address.
> >
> > I did not check special cases, e.g. when there are multiple close 
> > roads with different spelling.
> > Also, addr:interpolation ways with different spelling may not yet 
> > fully work,
> > but it should help in most cases.
> >
> > A binary is here:
> > |http://files.mkgmap.org.uk/download/275/mkgmap.jar
> >
> > |Gerd
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:20:38 +0200
> > > From: cdavilam at orangecorreo.es
> > > To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> > > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] addr:street and street name matching for 
> > house number searchs
> > >
> > > OK, I see, not an easy matter. I will then have to deal with the nearly
> > > 90.000 lines of this type in my log for Spain;-)
> > >
> > > El 13/08/15 a las 08:10, Gerd Petermann escribió:
> > > > Hi Carlos,
> > > >
> > > > not sure what to do here. See first this discussion:
> > > > 
> > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/address-search-and-case-significance-of-street-name-tp5840995.html
> > > >
> > > > My problem reg. suppression of certain messages is that current code
> > > > in mkgmap
> > > > is not able to find a nearly matching road name, so it has no way 
> > to say
> > > > "differs only in capitalization" or maybe "differs only slightly",
> > > > it just doesn't find a road.
> > > >
> > > > Gerd
> > > >
> > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:54:51 +0200
> > > > > From: cdavilam at orangecorreo.es
> > > > > To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> > > > > Subject: [mkgmap-dev] addr:street and street name matching for 
> > house
> > > > number searchs
> > > > >
> > > > > HousenumberRoad throws a warning when addr:street from a node 
> > and name
> > > > > of the street the node is next to are not equal, even if they differ
> > > > > only in the capitalization. See for example nodes
> > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2486105470 and
> > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2486105464 (addr:street=carrer del
> > > > > Montseny) which are next to way
> > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8590864
> > > > > with name=Carrer del Montseny. One of the names is more correct 
> > than
> > > > the
> > > > > other but, having in mind that Garmin changes capitalization
> > > > > arbitrarily, I'm not sure if we should keep these warnings.
> > > > > Another case to discuss is when one of addr:street or way name 
> > contains
> > > > > special letters and the other one not (eg. Asturies vs 
> > Astúries). Here
> > > > > one of the names is wrongly written and should be corrected in OSM
> > > > data,
> > > > > so may be worth keeping the warning.
> > >
> 
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