Hi On the index branch I have committed a change to sort the roads in the NET section in the same order as in the index. Prior to the I was unable to find any street containing a ü character in the first part of the name, now I can almost always find a street if the city field is empty. I have also found the reason why cities are in the index in incompatible forms such as Mönchweiller and Moenchweiller. There is some hard coded styling that uses the openGeoDB:sort_name tag to get the name of the city for an element, but the city itself gets the regular name tag (or whatever the style sets the name to). So I've changed this to use openGeoDB:name instead. As the change affects the tiles you must recompile the tiles, not just the index. You must also use --latin1. ..Steve