On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:59:55PM +0100, Wolfgang Hammel wrote:

Hi,

I was observing that that capitalized names on eg. buildings like "VW" etc. show up in upper and lower case on my Oregon 550. So I played around and tried some different combinations of upper / lower case names.

Here is the outcome on the Oregon:

"name" "name" in OSM -> on Oregon 550

"ABC" -> "Abc" "ABC D" -> "Abc D" "ABCd" -> "ABCd" "ABC De" -> "ABC De" "ABC d" -> "ABC d" "ABC DE" -> "Abc De" "ABC dE" -> "ABC dE"

So it seems as if when there were only upper case letters in a name, the name shown on the GPS device is modified such that only the first letter of each word stays uppercase. If there is a least one lower case letter in the name it is shown as it was originally in the OSM-data.

Is this a firmware "feature" of the Oregon or is this depending on the map-generation via mkgmap?

Command line for mkgmap was

java -Xmx1300M -ea -jar mkgmap.jar --latin1 --lower-case ...

however, omitting the --lower-case option doesn't change the outcome.

For what it is worth, some devices (such as the Edge 705) can show lower-case letters in non-rotated labels (such as POI labels), but not in the vector font that is used for displaying street names. If you use --lower-case, then the street names would show A?? instead of Abc. I seem to remember that there are some escape codes for forcing upper-case or lower-case in upper-case labels. So that you could avoid "VW" or "III" becoming "Vw" or "Iii" in labels. I may have seen this in cGPSmapper documentation some years ago. I never tried it out. Marko