[OSM-talk] Finding a particular street on the GPS

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 18, 2007 5:05 PM, demuire <fookstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using OSM on my Garmin eTrex Legend more or less since I bought it,
> it's great :)  Would love it more if it was auto routing, but I suppose I
> can't get everything I want  Well, not right away anyway...
>
> Anyway, one thing that I'd really really like though, is to be able to find
> a street. For example, say I know that I need to go to X street, but I have
> no idea where it is. I'd like to be able to use perhaps the Find function on
> the GPS to at least tell me where it is, so that I know at least roughly how
> to get there...
>
> Is this possible? If not, can I make my maps better in any way to make it
> possible? Will using the "is in" tag make it possible?
>
> Thanks :)

I believe that function requires the auto-routing function, or at
least a subset of it. It is going to be difficult to properly
associate a given street with a city, region, country, etc. The is_in
could help, but I don't think it's the answer. Probably what's going
to be required is a lookup of the bounding box of the way against a
city, region, etc. name database at the time when the GPS maps are
generated.

Karl