[mkgmap-dev] Country unification in address search

Thu Nov 12 20:49:58 GMT 2015

On Thu, Nov 12, Felix Hartmann wrote:

> I will try to find some more myself. But for my understanding such
> countries should not even be selectable. The fact that such bogus countries
> are selectable - must mean that some objects are found for them - doesn't
> it?
> I will check up for Canada - as that's where I got twice an error report by
> a user.
> 
> 
> At least for single country maps - maybe there could be an option to
> hardcode the country via command line options?

As I wrote: the mapping from AT to AUT as country is working, at
least in my example. But then something goes wrong.
Because AUT should map to Oesterreich according to the LocatorConfig.xml
file.

  Thorsten

> On 12 November 2015 at 21:25, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 12, Felix Hartmann wrote:
> >
> > > Well I use the bounds file - updated every month or so from here:
> > > http://osm.thkukuk.de/data/bounds-latest.zip
> >
> > It's updated every week, if it passes the sanity checks.
> > So if too many boundaries are broken, it's not updated.
> >
> > On my device I have the choice between "Oesterreich" and "AUT".
> > Below "AUT" I can only find very few streets. I haven't found
> > out yet why this is the case, the data looks ok.
> >
> > There is one example, look at the OSM data for
> > Schlosscafe, Glorietteallee 1, Eisenstadt.
> >
> > It's using "AT" as country, but can be found below AUT, so
> > this mapping works. But "Eisenstadt" cannot be found below
> > "Oesterreich".
> >
> > Interesting is, that "Eisenstadt" is adminlevel 6, not the
> > expected 8. Either the mapping of the admin level is wrong
> > or some boundaries are missing, but in any cases, the fallback
> > in inc/address should match?
> >
> > Maybe this example helps some people here to find out what's going
> > wrong.
> >
> >   Thorsten
> >
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