[talk-au] Search function on Garmin GPS units

[cam_daw at fastmail.fm]

Yes!  Indeed there is an issue with this.  I hadn't searched for
cities before on my Garmin unit :P
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).
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.
- 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.
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
- Rhubarb
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 15:06 +1000, b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au wrote:
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.
>
> 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:
>
> Bora Ridge, VIC 25.03km
> Rileys Hill, VIC 26.38km
> Swan Bay, VIC 28.71km
> *6 other results within 50km which are supposedly in Victoria*
>
> There's probably a consistent pattern in there somewhere, about
70% of the results are shown correctly to be in NSW.
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