Hi Steve, thanks for the feedback. I found several cases were the address search in MapSource did not work as I'd like. Not sure if the device works like MapSource. The problem appears when a part of a road inside a town gets a name like B101 Leipziger Strasse and another one only Leipziger Strasse. If the first has numbers between 100 and 120 and the other from 1 to 99 and I am searching for address "Leipziger Strasse 117" in that town I type 117 in the number field, my town name in the city field and "Leipziger" in the street name field. As a result I will find both entries "B101 Leipziger Strasse" and "Leipziger Strasse" in the list of roads, and if I select "Leipziger Strasse" I will not be pointed to the address which is at "B101 Leipziger Strasse". With a number like 55 the problem occurs vice versa. If I have multiple roads with the equal name abc , I see just one entry in the list and the search will find the right road. My understanding is that the ref should not appear in the road name, but I have no idea if this is a problem in an index or not. Gerd Steve Ratcliffe wrote
Hi
Yes I do see this as a problem for search.
These names are from the early days when we were unable to have more than one label on a road.
It should be the ref (with shield if appropriate) in the first name slot. Then the actual name in the second slot. (Perhaps the other way round as I cannot check at the moment).
I know it is a big change but I think that would be best for the default style.
On the other hand it shouldn't really cause search to fail if that is what is happening, so perhaps that can be improved.
..Steve
On 18 March 2015 15:11:18 GMT+00:00, GerdP <
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Hi all,
if I got it right, the default style creates roads with names like (B101) Leipziger Strasse for this way http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/144257391
with name=Leipziger Straße and ref=B101
With the new --x-split-name-index option I will find this road when I search for "Leipziger", but when I know an address like "Leipziger Str. xxx, Freiberg" I have to select the right version of the street if the list shows also other entries like "Leipziger Strasse" (without the ref), means, I have to try the different versions until one shows a plausible result for the given number xxx.
I wonder if this could be improved somehow? How do Garmin maps handle this?
Gerd
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