CountryName not added to POIs

[mschlenstedt]

Hi,

great piece of software! But I have a problem: My map covers multiple countries. When creating a POI RegionName= and City=y were added, but Countryname is missing. Example:

; NodeID = 3307527863
; place = hamlet
[POI]
Data0=(27.6784496,85.2754185)
EndLevel=2
Type=0x0C00
Label=Jhwah-cha
City=Y
CityName=Jhwah-cha
RegionName=Central Development Region
[END]

I found in lib/GarminTools.pl the following (line 50):

if ( $address->{country} ) {
#        $mp_address{country} = rename_country( $address->{country} );
        $mp_address{country} = $address->{country};
}

But it seems not to work correctly... Any help on that?

Thanks,
Michael

[cheshire-mouse]

If your source OSM file contains country border (every single part of it) and it is tagged properly (type = multipolygon or boundary, boundary = administrative, admin_level = 2), and you didn't messed up config much, everything should work fine

[mschlenstedt]

Thanks for your reply. I splitted a bigger OSM file from geofabrik.de with splitter (mkgmap) into seperate smaller tiles. Maybe this messed up something? I haven't done any manual editing to the file.

On the other hand the RegionName is set properly, so I think the OSM file should be ok...

I uploaded a smaple OSM tile here: http://www.schlenn.net/download/temp/

Maybe someone can check if it is ok.

[cheshire-mouse]

Some boundary parts are missing in your file. You'll have to add them. You can try JOSM editor to download missing parts, or download boundaries separately and append them (perhaps osmconvert tool will help you to do this)

[mschlenstedt]

Many thanks again for your feedback - and sorry for my very late reply. In the meantime I found the problem.

Just in case somebody else has the same problem, here's my solution:

In fact some boundary parts were missing in my file, but only the country borders, not the region borders. That is why CountryName was missing, but RegionName was used correctly.

The rootcause was splitter (which I used to split the map into smaller tiles): http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/splitter.html

I have added the option --wanted-admin-level=2 to splitter and everything is fine now :-)

Thanks again!