Thank you, I’ll start testing it and adapt the website to accept the country definitions.
Edit:
I’ve started working on the website. One of the changes is a new method of loading the tile definition KML file which dramatically reduces the loading time (13 seconds for the current version vs 1-2 seconds for the new dev version). I do seem to run into a bug in OpenLayers where the style of vector feature is lost on zooming (so you can’t see which tiles you’ve selected once you zoom in or out). I hope to be able to work around this.
Greencaps, I do have another feature request for matchit: Can the country polys be placed in subdirectories who’s name is also used in the resulting XML (You can drop JSON support, I don’t think I’ll be using it)?
e.g. countries/Europe/Netherlands.poly
translates into:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
(the tile name tag could be filled in some other day (each tile has a name according to the biggest city it contains)
As I envision it now, each continent will translate into a pulldown selection box in the website (so there will be about 6 pulldown selection next to each other above the map). This should allow users to quickly select their country.
Thanks for letting me know, I’ve gone back to the previous release of the 20th. I have updated Mkgmap for the latest release which probably contains a bug or I need to reconfigure).
What happens if you add --latin1 as a parameter for Mkgmap?
BTW, I’ve committed a new version of the website which reenables the country selection again. This time the country selection is dynamically configured so that it works with each new map release. Thanks to Greencaps for providing the matchit application. I’ll expect to add more countries in the coming days
Thanks, I assume this was a one off update then. I’ll upgrade to the latest Mkgmap Thursday (when the next update is started).
Edit: The server disk was full again. I’ve cleared the failed renderings, so some of you might get a 404 error when trying to open the link in the email… This time I’ve also changed the combine script so that it backs-off if the disk is too full. This will result in delayed renderings instead of failed renderings. I hope y’all don’t mind sometimes to wait a bit longer until the disk has some space again…
Hello all, I am new user so forgive me if I am asking simple things.
I have problem - every map i compile is not searchable - i get message “please enter state” and then “none found”
Why is that and how can it be fixed?
I do not exactly understand.
I compile maps and copy gmapsupp.img to my garmin.
When I choose " find address" I have first question “enter state”.
Whtever i put it says no matches.
it does not ask me about country at all, so I do not have option to input any number.
Ok, well I’ve worked through the Mkgmap mailinglist and this appears to be a problem specific to Nüvi owners (maybe Dakota and Oregon as well). It is a Mkgmap problem and will be sorted one day… they are working on it.
if you find your town, choose it and press at the next screen the displaybutton with the three circles (it is placed where the abc button is shown while you are searching for towns)
then search for pois (I use --road-name-pois for my maps to have the streetnames listed in “all pois”) and choose your streetname
In this way I find all adresses available in the used map.
I’ve just downloaded The Netherlands from the website and installed it in MapSource. When I type just ‘N’ (in Find Places → City → Country) I already get a list of countries to choose from with Nederland as first choice. The same goes with ‘U’ which lists United Kingdom first. So that appears to work rather well.
City option: Typing ‘Apel’ gives the city Apeldoorn as first item.
State/Province option: Typing ‘Antw’ gives the city Antwerpen as first item.
If I enter in Find Places → Address:
Number: 1
Street: Kayersdijk
City: Apeldoorn
and then click search then the correct street is found. But if I enter the country name as well then the street could not be found…
So your mileage may vary depending on the things you enter.