Hi Carlos, first of all thanks for testing. Sorry I didn't found time to answer your questions earlier.
*First I've noticed is that pois having is_in:region tag don't show region in nuvi. If region is taken from is_in rather that is_in:region it's a problem for countries like Spain, where information in this tag is completely erratic, i.e. you can find city, region, country, continent values in any order, some of them missing, separated by , or by ; etc. This way I can't find a way to set the region with regionOffset parameter in LocatorConfig.xml
You are right that the is_in tagging is not very reliable in most countries. I did the best to get reasonable results but on the long term the only solution is to fix the tags. Right now mkgmap supports the following formats: County, State, Country, Continent County, State, Country Continent, Country, State, County, ... To make it working mkgmap needs to know the valid country keywords. This could be configured in LocatorConfig.xml. I have attached a version that contains entries for Spain. Additionally I check for the following individual tags: City -> addr:city Zip -> addr:postcode Street -> addr:street House Number -> addr:housenumber Phone -> phone Country -> is_in:country or addr:country Region -> is_in:county So I think you might want to use the is_in:county tag for your purposes. I support this tag since it existed in UK. I don't think that is_in:region is a wide used tag. Right now this stuff is hard coded in the method elementSetup of StyledConverter.java. I know that is not nice and should be part of a configuration file.
*About poiDispFlag in LocatorConfig.xml: -> Address display format: Default is 0 - How does it display?
The default 0 is US style I guess. 1252 MainStreet New York 12544 I think UK uses the same notation ? Should we change the default ? I use 0xc which fits for Germany: Hauptstrasse 13 1000 Berlin
*If I use template.args generated by splitter as -c argument for mkgmap, all pois (except road_name_pois) are duplicated; for those without address information in osm data one of the pois have "Fix my address" and city added and the other one not. This is my mkgmap command: java -Xmx500m -enableassertions -jar mkgmap.jar -c template.args --route --latin1 --code-page=1252 --description="OpenStreetMap-Iberia" --gmapsupp --country-name=ESPAÑA --country-abbr=ESP --name-tag-list=ref,name --family-name="Open Street Map" --family-id=14 --product-id=314 --net --road-name-pois --ignore-osm-bounds --preserve-element-order --add-pois-to-areas --location-autofill=1 6*.osm.gz
I think I see your problem. You have used the -c option and added the splitted osm files with 6*.osm.gz. I think the template.args already contains the files. I checked it and in GPSMapEdit it looks like everything (including lines and polygons) is duplicated in this map. If you remove the 6*.osm.gz option your img file should get also much smaller. For some reason you have to move the -c option to the end of your arguments. It looks like otherwise all other parameters are ignored. I have attached my creation script. Thanks Berni. #!/bin/sh OSM=spain.osm DIR=/common/osm/spain cd $DIR #if [ "$1" != "q" ] #then #rm $DIR/* #wget -O $OSM.bz2 http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/$OSM.bz2 #bunzip2 $DIR/$OSM.bz2 #java -Xmx1024M -jar ~/maps/splitter/dist/splitter.jar $OSM #fi time java -Xmx1024M -jar ~/maps/mkgmap/mkgmap.jar --route --latin1 \ --code-page=1252 --description="OpenStreetMap-Iberia" \ --gmapsupp --country-name=ESPAÑA --country-abbr=ESP --name-tag-list=ref,name --family-name="Open StreetMap" \ --family-id=14 --product-id=314 --net --road-name-pois \ --ignore-osm-bounds --preserve-element-order --add-pois-to-areas \ --location-autofill=1 -c template.args cp gmapsupp.img /common/garmin/gmapsupp_spain.img