Mark Burton escribió:
Hi Carlos,
I hadn't time to test your patch till now. It's great. Now I can search by any street name in the map. Thanks Mark. I think it would be good to get it merged in trunk as a workaround for the "Find address" function not working till now.
Thanks for the feedback - please do say if you think it could be improved.
I have to test it further, maybe fake points could appear less visible on screen, they can confuse someone.
At the moment, it finds the city nearest to the road name poi but that doesn't always give the "best" result. Consider, you could have a road that lies mostly near city A but, by chance, the poi ends up nearer some other city (B). In that case, the road name will be suffixed with B rather than A as you would expect. I am not sure it's worth the effort to fix this.
I think this case won't be very often. Could be used is-in instead of near as criteria to name road pois?
Yes, until (if ever) the "find address" function is implemented, it does provide a basic street search capability and it will work on any gps that supports find poi by name. Cheap and cheerful, as they say.
Cheers,
Mark