[PATCH v6] - alpha patch to support road find by name
v6 - Now based on r984 - Now uses separate labels for road name and ref so you no longer get "Foo street (A123)" - this allows roads to be searched for by name or by ref. If you are using your own style files make sure to change the line that sets the highway name to: # If highway has a name, use it, or if it has a ref, use that as the name highway=* {name '${name}' | '${ref}' } When entering an address, the road names are searchable incrementally but the city names are not. Interestingly, if you enter a city name or the prefix of a city name it will scroll the list of city names to the appropriate position - weird. As reported by a tester, if you select a city, it doesn't limit the roads in the list to only the roads in that city, you still get presented with a list of all the roads in the known universe. I have good reason to believe that these two issues will only be solved by supplying further index information (MDR file perhaps?) So, it may be that the current functionality is the best we can hope for until the MDR is cracked. ----------- Hi, The attached patch is for the current SVN trunk and it generates the sorted road data that is required by the gps to find roads/intersections by name. As for the number field, I haven't thought yet how that would get its data. Please test this patch and report success/failure. If it doesn't break anything for anyone, I would like to commit it fairly soon as I think that quite a few people will be happy to have street finding added to the trunk. Cheers, Mark
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:22:12PM +0000, Mark Burton wrote:
v6 - Now based on r984 - Now uses separate labels for road name and ref so you no longer get "Foo street (A123)" - this allows roads to be searched for by name or by ref. If you are using your own style files make sure to change the line that sets the highway name to:
# If highway has a name, use it, or if it has a ref, use that as the name highway=* {name '${name}' | '${ref}' }
When entering an address, the road names are searchable incrementally but the city names are not. Interestingly, if you enter a city name or the prefix of a city name it will scroll the list of city names to the appropriate position - weird.
As reported by a tester, if you select a city, it doesn't limit the roads in the list to only the roads in that city, you still get presented with a list of all the roads in the known universe.
I have good reason to believe that these two issues will only be solved by supplying further index information (MDR file perhaps?)
So, it may be that the current functionality is the best we can hope for until the MDR is cracked.
Works for me except the little things mostly mentioned and known: - City search doesnt work - Lots of segments of the same street - Multiple refs seperated by ";" are not put in the search twice but show up as "A 33; B 64" for example ... - City shown in the street list is non optimal but thats a matter of missing correct administrative hierarchie Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin
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