Hi Carlos,
To add to what Maning said, there is already some address data in OSM and
it's already searchable in other tools.
The OSM-PH Garmin map is compiled using the mkgmap software and the
developers are still trying to make it fully work. You can read an overview
of some of the issues here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/known_issues#Address_search
In the meantime, we should continue adding address data into the OSM
database because it's immediate useful for other people who don't use the
Garmin map. :-)
Eugene
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:13 PM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear carlos,
There are some experimental implementations of address search. I
haven't looked into it in detail. But please do add address
information more data means more opportunity to debug the mkgmap
algorithms.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Carlos Tirona carlos.tir...@gmail.com
wrote:
Been wondering about this for quite some time.
Why is it that I can't search by address on the Garmin?
Is it because of the data we have in the Philippine map?
If so, what can be done to fix this issue?
Sometimes, if I need to find a location, I just input the intersecting
streets.
This doesn't work all the time. And, well, for me to know the
intersections,
I more or less know the area already.
Just looking for a way to make the maps more efficient.
Thanks!
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