[mkgmap-dev] Please check if help is okay
From Alexandre Loss alexandre.loss at gmail.com on Thu Jun 1 11:20:57 BST 2017
Perfect now! Thanks! Alexandre Enviado do meu iPhone > Em 1 de jun de 2017, às 03:38, Gerd Petermann <GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> escreveu: > > Hi all, > > okay, I've now also added options --mdr7-del, --mdr7-excl, and --poi-excl-index. > Option --split-name-index is no longer temporay. > The corresponding part of the help now looks like this: > > --split-name-index > An option to enable indexing each part of a street name separately. > So for example if the street is "Aleksandra Gryglewskiego" then you will be able to > search for it as both "Aleksandra" and "Gryglewskiego". It will also increase the > size of the index. Useful in countries where searching for the first word in name > is not the right thing to do. Words following an opening bracket '(' are ignored. > See also option road-name-config. > > --road-name-config=file > This option handles the problem that some countries have road names which > ofter start or end with very similar words, e.g. in France the first word > is very often 'Rue', ofter followed by a preposition like 'de la' or 'des'. > This leads to rather long road names like 'Rue de la Concorde' where only > the word 'Concorde' is really interesting. In the USA, you ofter have names > like 'West Main Street' where only the word 'Main' is important. > Garmin software has some tricks to handle this problem. It allows to use > special characters in the road labels which mark the beginning and end of > the important part. In combinarion with option split-name-index > only the words in the important part are indexed. > > There are two different visiual effects of this option: > - On the PC, when zooming out, the name 'Rue de la Concorde' is only > rendered as 'Concorde'. > - The index for road names only contains the important part of the name. > You can search for road name Conc to find road names like 'Rue de la Concorde'. > One problem: Search for 'Rue' will not list 'Rue de la Concorde' > or 'Rue du Moulin'. It may list 'Rueben Brookins Road' if that is in the map. > Only MapSource shows a corresponding hint. > > Another effect is that the index is smaller. > The option specifies the path to a file which gives the details. See > comments in the sample roadNameConfig.txt for further details. > > --mdr7-excl > This option allows to specify words which should not be in the road index. > It was added before option road-name-config and is probably no longer needed. > Example usage: --x-mdr7-excl="Road, Street, Straße, Weg" > > --mdr7-del > Use this option if your style adds strings to the labels of roads which you > want to see in the map but which should not appear in the result list > of a road name / address search. The list is used like this: > For each road label mkgmap searches the last blank. If one is found, it checks > if the word after it appears in the given list. If so, the word is removed > and the search is repeated. The remaining string is used to create the index. > > --poi-excl-index > By default, mkgmap indexes the following POI types with a non-empty label: > - 0x00 .. 0x0f (cities, sub type 0, type <= 0xf) > - 0x2axx..0x30xx (Food & Drink, Lodging, ...) > - 0x28xx (no category ?) > - 0x64xx .. 0x66xx (attractions) > This option allows to exclude POI types from the index. > The exclueded types are not indexed, but may still be searchable on a device > as some devices seem to ignore most of the index, e.g. an Oregon 600 with > firmware 5.00 only seems to use it for city search. > If you device finds a POI name like 'Planet' when you search for 'Net' > it doesn't use the index because the index created by mkgmap cannot help for > that search. > So, this option may help when you care about the size of the index or the > memory that is needed to calculate it. > The option expects a comma separated list of types or type ranges. A range is > given with from-type-to-type, e.g. 0x6400-0x6405. First and last type are both > excluded.A range can span multiple types, e.g. 0x6400-0x661f. > Examples for usage: > - Assume your style adds a POI with type 0x2800 for each addr:housenumber. > It is not useful to index those numbers, so you can use > --poi-excl-index=0x2800 > to exclude this. > - For the mentioned Oregon you may use --poi-excl-index=0x2a00-0x661f > to reduce the index size. > > > Please suggest improvements. > > ciao, > Gerd > > ________________________________________ > Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Gerd Petermann <GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2017 18:35:36 > An: Development list for mkgmap > Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Please check if help is okay > > Hi Alexandre, > > thanks for the hint. The options work fine together. I'll try to make that clearer. > > Gerd > ________________________________________ > Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Alexandre Loss <alexandre.loss at gmail.com> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2017 18:06:24 > An: Development list for mkgmap > Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Please check if help is okay > > Hi Gerd, > > it is clear your documentation for the new --road-name-config parameter. However, what is the relation or impact using this new parameter concomitantly with --x-split-name-index? Are they mutually exclusive? > > I suggest to clarify this in the documentation. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > > Alexandre > > 2017-05-31 4:39 GMT-03:00 Gerd Petermann <GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com<mailto:GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>>: > Hi all, > > in r3963 I tried to document the new prefix / suffix stuff: > --road-name-config=file > This option handles the problem that some countries have road names which > ofter start or end with very similar words, e.g. in France the first word > is very often 'Rue', ofter followed by a preposition like 'de la' or 'des'. > This leads to rather long road names like 'Rue de la Concorde' where only > the word 'Concorde' is really interesting. In the USA, you ofter have names > like 'West Main Street' where only the word 'Main' is important. > Garmin software has some tricks to handle this problem. It allows to use > special characters in the road labels which mark the beginning and end of > the important part. > There are two different visiual effects of this option: > - On the PC, when zooming out, the name 'Rue de la Concorde' is only > rendered as 'Concorde'. > - The index for road names only contains the important part of the name. > You can search for road name Conc to find road names like 'Rue de la Concorde'. > One problem: Search for 'Rue' will not list 'Rue de la Concorde' > or 'Rue du Moulin'. It may list 'Rueben Brookins Road' if that is in the map. > > Another effect is that the index is smaller. > > The option specifies the path to a file which gives the details. See > comments in the sample roadNameConfig.txt for further details. > > Is that clear enough? Please check also the comments in the sample file. > Please suggest improvements, else I'll use the same text for the style documentation before > merging to trunk. > > Gerd > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk<mailto:mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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