Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 16.02.2011 11:32, schrieb Christian Steins: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:00:48 +0200, Du Plessis, Bennie wrote: I don't understand which tags are used to find the country (and other address data) for a street, or city to use in address search. I think we should have a wiki page describing all

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
I don't understand which tags are used to find the country (and other address data) for a street, or city to use in address search. [First I should say that I did not write any of the code in question and haven't looked at it much at all so I don't really know how it works in any detail] It

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Ratcliffe
On 16/02/11 10:42, Henning Scholland wrote: -how do the different location-autofill options work? -what is the algorithm for getting the region for a place? -how are streets assigned to cities? -what is the purpose of the LocatorConfig.xml file? Don't forget the importanrs point: How to use

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot McNally
It's amusing and not particularly surprising how, as soon as we have searchable maps, we discover the importance of having better addressing information about locations. So far a lot of a fundamental principles have been mentioned: * That using is_in information is easy, but not satisfactory,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Feb 16, 2011, at 15:20, Dermot McNally wrote: On 16 February 2011 13:28, Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net wrote: My suggestion would be to move region (country, city) detection into a preprocessing step, outside of mkgmap. That is, some other tool preprocesses and normalizes the

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot McNally
On 16 February 2011 14:40, Robert Vollmert rvollmert-li...@gmx.net wrote: So instead of writing is_in tags, write the actual data as relations? One relation per street,  one relation per city, etc., with all streets as members in the corresponding city relation? I wasn't thinking of trying

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Address city country name assignment.

2011-02-15 Thread Du Plessis, Bennie
Hi, I don't understand which tags are used to find the country (and other address data) for a street, or city to use in address search. In my build of Southern Africa, the streets around Nelspruit gets assigned country Botswana, although it is in South Africa, and close to a place= city node