[GraphHopper] offline routing using address names

[Peter K]

Hey Marinho,

geocoding (getting a GPS coordinate from an address) is currently not
the scope of GraphHopper.

Regards,
Peter.


> Hello,
>
> I am developing an application for Android that must have offline map
> and routing features.
> After some search on Internet, I found the libraries mapsforge and
> graphhopper.
> I saw the example provided by graphhopper's webpage and managed to
> build my own app using those libraries. But what I would like to know
> is how I can enter the start and end points for routing by using
> address names.
> I read the javadocs of graphhopper and saw some classes related to
> data storage and name indexes and in the sdcard there are some binary
> files called "names" and "locationIndex", so I guess this should be
> related to what I want.
>
> I tried to get access to such files by doing this:
>
> String mapsFolder = 
> Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() +
> "/graphhopper/maps/";
> MMapDirectory mapDirectory = new MMapDirectory(mapsFolder);
> NameIndex nameIndex = new NameIndex(mapDirectory);
>        
> String name = nameIndex.get(0);
> log(name);
>
>
> And what I got on LogCat was:
>
> 02-04 13:49:50.514: I/Marinho(2507): found graph
> LevelGraphStorage|car|MMAP_STORE|2,3,2,2,2, nodes:1196761
>
>
>
> So, definitely it was not what I expected.
>
> Could someone tell whether this is the right direction or not, please ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marinho
>
>
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