[mkgmap-dev] Commit r3971: - roadNameConfig_v1.patch by Carlos Davida which adds more countries and languages

Wed Jun 14 20:34:50 BST 2017

Yes, " d' " is valid Portuguese.  But all others are Spanish, and I 
believe they should not be ommited in portuguese maps because they will 
not be assumed by the users.

Em 14/06/2017 15:14, Carlos Dávila escreveu:
> Working on "Avenida" prefix (shared between Spanish and Portuguese) I 
> also found a few cases with "de las", "del , "d'", "el ", "la " in 
> Brazil and/or Portugal
>
> El 14/06/17 a las 20:03, Alexandre Loss escribió:
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> In our project here in Brazil (tracksource.org.br 
>> <http://tracksource.org.br>), we started using this new feature with 
>> the following configuration:
>> # portuguese
>> prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa", "Alameda", "Beco", 
>> "Praça", "Rotatória", "Via", "Viela", "Estrada"
>> prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "de ", "das ", "dos ", "para "
>>
>> Gradually and with more tests we should consider the expansion to 
>> other prefixes.
>> With this configuration we obtained a 27 MB reduction in the size of 
>> our index file (whole Brazil).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Loss
>>
>> 2017-06-14 14:38 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Folle de Menezes 
>> <afmlistas at terra.com.br <mailto:afmlistas at terra.com.br>>:
>>
>>     Fine then, my mistake.  But I still would like to have the title
>>     corrected ("Portug_u_ese") and "Beco" added.
>>
>>     Also, I am not sure if "Estrada" and "Rodovia" should be added
>>     (both mean "Road").  I am currently using both on my maps, but
>>     they since are not common in urban areas, I am not sure what the
>>     convention is.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>
>>         Alexandre
>>
>>     Em 14/06/2017 13:24, Gerd Petermann escreveu:
>>>     Hi,
>>>     I think with the current code the order really doesn't matter.
>>>     That is also mentioned in the comments.
>>>     Ciao Gerd
>>>
>>>     ---- Alexandre Folle de Menezes schrieb ----
>>>
>>>     Hola Carlos,
>>>
>>>     I see that you are listing the prefixes in alphabetic order.  I
>>>     believe it would be way more efficient to put the most common
>>>     prefixes first.
>>>
>>>     For Portuguese, that would be (as I suggested in a previous 
>>> message):
>>>
>>>     -# portugese
>>>     -prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa"
>>>     -prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "de ", "das ", "dos "
>>>     +# portuguese
>>>     +prefix1:pt = "Rua", "Avenida", "Travessa", "Alameda", "Beco"
>>>     +prefix2:pt = "da ", "do ", "das ", "dos ", "de ", "d'"
>>>     Saludos,
>>>
>>>         Alexandre
>>>
>>>     Em 13/06/2017 18:19, Carlos Dávila escreveu:
>>>>     El 12/06/17 a las 06:22, svn commit escribió:
>>>>>     Version mkgmap-r3971 was committed by gerd on Mon, 12 Jun 2017
>>>>>
>>>>>     - roadNameConfig_v1.patch by Carlos Davida which adds more
>>>>>     countries and languages
>>>>>     - Improve comments
>>>>>
>>>>     Attached is version 2 of roadNameConfig.patch
>>>>     I'm working in the completion of roadNameConfig file. I think if
>>>>     I could somehow get a file with the list of road names in a map
>>>>     I could advance faster in this task. Is there any tool to get it
>>>>     in the display project?
>>
>
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