Hi

Am 13.02.2011 23:52, schrieb Steve Ratcliffe:
> There is a big problem with address search with poor and inconsistent map 
> data.  With my map of England I get the choice of four different variations 
> on the name of the country to choose from. One must be chosen and doing so 
> means that you can only find streets that have that particular country name.
>
> Now there is no way for me to know since after all everything is really in 
> the same country.
>
> So to make address search really useful the country names have to be cleaned 
> up, (other countries may be in a better state).
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas about this?
>
> ..Steve

Do you think, it's an osm-data-problem? Then it would be very helpful, 
to explain, which tags are involved and causes the faults. Is it is_in, 
addr:country or which tags did mkgmap use therefor?

If there are faults in the data, they should be fixed.

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