On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 03:34:30PM +1100, Hendrik Oesterlin wrote:
I tried to put some house numbers in OSM in order to be searchable on my Garmin device.
See http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.275439&lon=166.45965&zoom=18&layers=B0... and http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.15022&lon=166.48473&zoom=17&layers=B00... for the two test locations.
I was unable to find this house numbers on my Nüvi755. (using the 20091216_gmapsupp.zip available at my site http://www.oesterlin.ile.nc/gps/ )
Is this feature supported by mkgmap?
As far as I can tell, it is not yet supported.
It should be possible to convert the OSM nodes containing the
addr:housenumber addr:street addr:postcode addr:city addr:country
tags to an POI using as name something like "housenumber street postcode city country" and building=yes (or something similar)?
Has someone already written an appropriate line to put in the "points" file of the styles folder?
I believe that the original question was about house numbers that would appear on the map like they do in paid-for Garmin maps: without a POI, displayed in a tooltip when you hover the pointer next to the street line. I saw this about 4 months ago on a friend's Edge 705. There were no POIs or polygons in the area; just a residential street on a yellow background.
Or has someone written an regular expression code regrouping the different addr:* tags in an name=* tag before the OSM data is converted by mkgmap ?
Something like this should work to that effect: building=* { name '${addr:housenumber|def:} ${addr:street|def:} ${addr:postcode|def:} ${addr:city|def:} ${addr:country|def:}' } But I do not see the point of this. If you select a POI on the map, the POI details screen will already display these addr:* tags and the phone number, at least on the Edge 705. I do not really know anything about this. My not-so-well-educated guess is that the house numbers could show up if you ran mkgmap --index and uploaded the map to the device from MapSource. I have never tried either. Best regards, Marko