Hi, On Sat, Oct 29, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
If you have a style that say sets the name of every path to 'Path'
eg: highway=path | highway=footway | highway=track {name 'Path' }
or anything similar that results in thousands of roads with the same name, then mkgmap appears to freeze.
The code that is slow is creating a list of roads that will be used when you search for an address in MapSource or on the device.
I can fix this in various ways, but I want to ask how useful it is to have thousands of roads with the same name appear as a result of a search?
In all cases where I set a name for a highway it is because the way does not have a name. So I set something like "unpaved road" or something similar. Which means, no, it doesn't make any sense to have this as a search result. "upnaved road" will not help anybody at all to find a street.
Should I drop the name completely from the index when there are more than say 500 roads with the same name in the same city?
I think that's a good idea. But I have no experience what a good limit is. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)