Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
On 22/10/09 12:49, Lambertus wrote:
Ok, so if I understand correctly, I should remove the --latin1 and --code-page parameters (the code-page already being redundant)?
Yes that will currently give the best results on a worldwide basis, but you will have no accents on characters at all.
It won't take long to make the current transliteration support available to --latin1, but the code needs a bit of re-arrangement to make it possible.
I'll leave the code-page to Latin1 then, assuming that Latin1 is supported my most GPS devices.
What's the best thing we can say to (impatient) map users that want readable names in maps in your opinion? Wait for improved support in Mkgmap or is adding transliterated names in the OSM data an option?
If someone wants to go beyond what is currently possible and transliterate based on attempting to detect country/language then it might be a good idea to pre-process (although if you are going to do that I would just change name, rather than adding an extra tag). If something really good comes from I won't mind adding it into mkgmap if it is appropriate.
Ok, I've sent this forward to the forum and we'll see what comes out of this :) Thanks.