Hi Gerd. With my very poor English, a understand this option description, except one place (I 've remarked below with rec colour) Best Regards Darek W dniu 2017-05-31 09:39:04 użytkownik Gerd Petermann <[email protected]> napisał: > Hi all, > > in r3963 I tried to document the new prefix / suffix stuff: > --road-name-config=file > This option handles the problem that some countries have road names which > ofter start or end with very similar words, e.g. in France the first word > is very often 'Rue', ofter followed by a preposition like 'de la' or 'des'. > This leads to rather long road names like 'Rue de la Concorde' where only > the word 'Concorde' is really interesting. In the USA, you ofter have names > like 'West Main Street' where only the word 'Main' is important. > Garmin software has some tricks to handle this problem. It allows to use > special characters in the road labels which mark the beginning and end of > the important part. > There are two different visiual effects of this option: > - On the PC, when zooming out, the name 'Rue de la Concorde' is only > rendered as 'Concorde'. > - The index for road names only contains the important part of the name. > You can search for road name Conc to find road names like 'Rue de la > Concorde'. > One problem: Search for 'Rue' will not list 'Rue de la Concorde' > or 'Rue du Moulin'. It may list 'Rueben Brookins Road' if that is in the > map.(first point concern display on PC, this point (second) also or with > index problem is on Garmin unit?) > > Another effect is that the index is smaller. > > The option specifies the path to a file which gives the details. See > comments in the sample roadNameConfig.txt for further details. > > Is that clear enough? Please check also the comments in the sample file. > Please suggest improvements, else I'll use the same text for the style > documentation before > merging to trunk. > > Gerd > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev >
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