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Yes! Indeed there is an issue with this. I hadn't searched for cities before on my Garmin unit :P<br>
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Ok, I havn't done that much of a comparison of OSM town name POI tags, and what the Garmin unit's find cities tool brings up. But there's a small chance it could be the "is_in" tag (not is_in:country tags).<br>
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It could also be a small bug with mkgmap http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/index.html which would be the tool that's being used to convert the OSM data into Garmin's IMG format.<br>
- In which case it might be good idea to file a bug with a little research to make it easier for the auther of mkgmap to re-create the bug.<br>
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It's not a feature I'd use that much, but still, it would be handy if you're actually trying to find something - rather than in my case, to simply tell me if a road exists and if so does it have a name - so I can survey it and clean it up :P<br>
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- Rhubarb<br>
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On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 15:06 +1000, b.schulz.10@scu.edu.au wrote:<br>
I've had the same issue. When searching for cities or suburbs it will come up with results such as "Newcastle, VIC" "Newtown, VIC" etc.<br>
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> I just switched on my Legend HCx and did a search for nearest cities. Currently I'm in Lismore and despite most of the results being in NSW it still came up with:<br>
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> Bora Ridge, VIC 25.03km<br>
> Rileys Hill, VIC 26.38km<br>
> Swan Bay, VIC 28.71km<br>
> *6 other results within 50km which are supposedly in Victoria*<br>
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> There's probably a consistent pattern in there somewhere, about 70% of the results are shown correctly to be in NSW.</div>
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