Hi
Okay, well I like many though that mkgmap can create a more or less correct address index itself when writing gmapsupp.img, this is true, however not under all circumstances. The test setup is rather complicated, so best get the same data.
The problem is, that the gmapsupp.img by mkgmap is only working with correct address search, if all tiles themselves were created with "index". However if you use mkgmap to create a gmapsupp.img that consists of tiles with address search support (for below testexample 6*.img) and tiles with no address search support .i.e. contourline maps (for below testexample 7*.img) then the address search is not working (but instead asking for country)....
The --index option has no affect at all on the tiles, so it does not matter if you give the option when creating the tiles.
For testing, you can get for example the following map: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openmtbmap/mtbalps.exe (as of
Thanks, I've had a look at this. It appears that the contour tiles are not created with --latin1 but the other ones are not. Also in the .bat files that create the gmapsup I don't see --latin1 used when creating the index in every case. The same --latin1 and/or --code-page flags must be used when creating every tile and also when creating the index.
1. Creating gmapsupp.img of 6*.img files with mkgmap 2278: after GPS fix, works (needs however data rather close by, there seems to be another bug, that if you for example are in UK, and now upload a map with parts in Austria, but none in UK, address search won't work even with GPS fix, this is however also happening if the same mkgmap created map is sent with Mapsource/Mapinstall).
On my eTrex 30 I initially saw the problem of not being able to find distant addresses. I then switched off the base maps and the then I could find them. However when I re-enabled the base maps, I could still find far away addresses... I've discovered a couple of problems in the device index so I am creating a branch to fix them, they are POI and not address related though. I will also attempt to discover the code-page and sort order options used to build the files and use them for the index automaticially. ..Steve