Hi
I've just noticed that I may have introduced a problem with r3875. Road names containing special characters 0x1e and 0x1f are treated different now. I am not sure where those characters appear in names. I think they are used to store so called double byte
0x1e is a prefix separator and 0x1f a suffix separator. They are used instead of a space in street names to separate the main part of the name from Chemin, Rue, Road, Avenue etc. If I use ']' for 0x1e and '[' for 0x1f, then streets can be written as: Rue]Nicolo Chemin de]Pierre Froide Fernrodder[Strasse Street Lane[Road This also affects searching in mapsource and the prefix/suffix parts seem to be ignored. For example if I want to search for 'Street Lane Road' (its a real name!) I type the letters 'street lane' and the full name is shown in the dropdown. But if I add the 'r' as in 'street lane r', then it no longer matches and the next matching name is shown in the dropdown, which happens to be 'Street Lane Roundabout'. There is also the sections in the index mdr30/31 and mdr32/33 which are simple lists of prefixes and suffixes. I do not know how they are used. In mapsource you have to pick from the dropdown list. So to select our favourite French road 'Chemain de Pierre Froide' you have to type 'pierre fr...' and select. Starting from 'Chemain ...' does not get you anywhere even if you type the whole name. In BaseCamp, you can type the whole name, and although it also will not show in the dropdown, it will allow you to enter it and it will find it. ..Steve _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
