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

[Lambertus]

demuire 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?
> 
What you're describing here is adding all the streets to the POI list I 
guess. While that should be possible, I wonder if it would be workable 
with all those streets that are named the same in different cities.