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

[Fook Seung Lee]

On Dec 20, 2007 12:50 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2007 12:43 AM, Lambertus <osm at na1400.info> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you're talking about maps for a Garmin GPS, I believe there's a
> special index that is created just for streets. If you look at the
> various modes and licensing options for cGPSMapper, the ability to
> search by address or street intersection is one of the premium
> features.
>
> Karl


Thanks for pointing that out Karl.  Wow, USD800!   I wonder how much the
Shareware (USD25) does, it sounds like it only indexes the cities and POI's
(I would assume by POI it would mean like tourist attractions, parking
etc?).  If it at least does suburbs then it could be almost what I'm looking
for...



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