<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the links! I will read up on it this weekend.<br><div><div>On May 7, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Carlos,<br><br>To add to what Maning said, there is already some address data in OSM and it's already searchable in other tools.<br><br>The OSM-PH Garmin map is compiled using the mkgmap software and the developers are still trying to make it fully work. You can read an overview of some of the issues here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/known_issues#Address_search">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/known_issues#Address_search</a><br>
<br>In the meantime, we should continue adding address data into the OSM database because it's immediate useful for other people who don't use the Garmin map. :-)<br><br>Eugene<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:13 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear carlos,<br>
<br>
There are some experimental implementations of address search. I<br>
haven't looked into it in detail. But please do add address<br>
information more data means more opportunity to debug the mkgmap<br>
algorithms.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address</a><br>
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Carlos Tirona <<a href="mailto:carlos.tirona@gmail.com">carlos.tirona@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Been wondering about this for quite some time.<br>
><br>
> Why is it that I can't search by address on the Garmin?<br>
> Is it because of the data we have in the Philippine map?<br>
> If so, what can be done to fix this issue?<br>
><br>
> Sometimes, if I need to find a location, I just input the intersecting<br>
> streets.<br>
> This doesn't work all the time. And, well, for me to know the intersections,<br>
> I more or less know the area already.<br>
><br>
> Just looking for a way to make the maps more efficient.<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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