On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:21:53PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v7] - alpha patch to support road find by name
Hi Marko,
Due to time constraints (I do have to work as well!) I haven't had a real good think about this. I'm quite busy now so perhaps someone else will take up the challenge.
To be honest, I'm fed up because I have put a lot of hours into the exit stuff and some more into this road addressing stuff and both features have annoying usability faults. So close...
Hey, it's not that bad. I think that the road name search is a useful feature even in its current form. The faults can be documented, and fixes can be attempted later. Come to think of it, even the maps without routing support were useful.
True, true - Rome wasn't built in a day, etc.
Playing around with the road name search, I just verified that if you prefix your numeric road names with one or more letters ('AA', for example) they are now incrementally searchable. So we could put in a hack to add the prefix?
Might it be that the order is wrong in the data? Probably the least specific match should be first: 1 14 140 vs 140 14 1 Probably the search stops if it finds an exact match so less specifics need to come first ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin