That's weird... we did the same tests and it fails, but now it is eems it is partially working fo ryoru... I'll give another try tonight.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Carlos Dávila <cdavi...@orangecorreo.es>wrote: > El 05/08/13 23:09, Carlos Dávila escribió: > > El 05/08/13 19:42, Steve Ratcliffe escribió: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Folks, as you know – this comes up time to time – address search is >>>> unpractical in most Latin countries where the street/square name usually >>>> starts with the type (Via, Viale,Corso, Piazza etc [IT]; Avenida, >>>> Calle, Plaza etc [ES]; Avenue, Boulevard, Rue, Place etc [FR] etc.) >>>> followed by the full name of - usually - the person naming the street. >>>> Nevertheless the street names sometime appears abbreviated (V.le, >>>> Av.da, Bld. etc), sometime the Middle name is skipped, sometime the >>>> work “of” is used (Avenue de Bobigny, Corso del Popolo etc) >>>> >>>> The Garmin index format has a way of dealing with this problem and >>> earlier this year I made a branch that creates an index with the extra >>> information to show where the interesting part of the name starts. >>> >>> The latest version indexes every word in the name separately so you >>> could find 'corso del popolo' by typing 'corso' , 'del' or 'popolo'. >>> >>> So this will always work for any language, but at the cost of a >>> much larger index. >>> >>> It would be great if someone could try it out as it is, then >>> if useful, its more likely that someone would improve it. By >>> devising a suitable way to cut down the useless entries. >>> >>> Download it as mkgmap-mixed-index-r2662.jar at the bottom of the download >>> page. >>> >>> So what is a simple Mozartstrasse in Austria would look like “Via >>>> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in Italy or “Rue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” in >>>> France but possibly also “Av.da de Mozart” etc. >>>> >>>> Now, everyone knows the street/square by its last name and it would be >>>> much more practical to search by it: I’d like to have a style that just >>>> pick the last full word of the street/square name and put it as a suffix >>>> followed by a comma and the original name. >>>> >>>> This would really boost address search for Latin countries – so it might >>>> be a default style to add to IT, FR, ES, BR, MX… etc). >>>> >>>> Could you help me on making that regular expression for the style? >>>> >>>> “str1 str2… strN” -> “strN, str1 str2… strN” >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Enrico >>>> >>> First result with the mixed-index branch, processing Spain with default >> style >> Total time taken: 391216ms vs 449649ms with r2661 >> index size: 29 MB vs 21.6 MB with r2661 >> Apart from the numbers, the address search doesn't work by now. Entries >> in the index are not unique and are not ordered (see screenshot 1). When >> you type a letter search results don't change accordingly (screenshot 2). >> This is the console output, if it is of any help: >> === FIRST >> t1=0, t2=55013 >> first av 96203/24, last 0/12 >> AVENIDA : 32380 >> CAMINO : 14816 >> PLAZA : 12864 >> CARRETERA : 28180 >> CALLE : 288500 >> RÚA : 9130 >> CARRER : 117140 >> AVINGUDA : 11602 >> === LAST >> KALEA : 9682 >> AUZOA : 11604 >> > I have compiled the same input data with the same command and strangely > now it seems to work better. Typing "C" in the search field selects all > streets with a "C" as first letter in their name after calle, avenida or > whatever (see screenshot), apart from the 3 first entries in the list. > > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev >
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