Folks, I had a weird problem I just sorted out -  it was known that the position of the TYP file on command line may have some influence,  I remember I read somewhere it is better to place it at the end as last argument. What is weird is something happen among  r3642 and r3695 which changed the behavior.

I used the following command since years:

java -Xmx2000M -jar ./mkgmap/mkgmap.jar --max-jobs  --latin1 --output-dir="./img"/ \
  --family-id=10030  --product-id=1  --route --remove-short-arcs  --bounds=bounds.zip \
 --precomp-sea=sea.zip  --location-autofill=is_in,nearest --draw-priority=20  --index --housenumbers --gmapsupp ./typ/gspeed.typ ./work/7311*osm.pbf \
 --family-id=10031 --product-id=1 --draw-priority=10000  --transparent  ./typ/gspeed.typ ./contours/imgItaAndAlps/7324*img
 
Since somewhere between r3642 and r3695 ( incl. current 3705) that is generating a map with broken address search (either the country does not appear in the list).

java -Xmx2000M -jar ./mkgmap/mkgmap.jar --max-jobs  --latin1 --output-dir="./img"/ \
  --family-id=10030  --product-id=1  --route --remove-short-arcs  --bounds=bounds.zip \
 --precomp-sea=sea.zip  --location-autofill=is_in,nearest --draw-priority=20  --index --housenumbers --gmapsupp ./work/7311*osm.pbf  ./typ/gspeed.typ \
 --family-id=10031 --product-id=1 --draw-priority=10000  --transparent./contours/imgItaAndAlps/7324*img

What is weird is that the 1st command line seems to work for small files or if I remove the contour line (last line - also if I keep the typ before the pbf) and that the typ file is ignored by main map if it is just at the end of the whole command line.

Maybe it makes sense to better document where to place a typ file in http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/doc/options ...just avoid someone else to get crazy!

Regards,
Enrico