I am working with MapPoint Europe 2004 and I need to perform a search for addresses that may only partially match the street name (city, and country of the address have to be completedly matched) because I found that many street named after some famous persons in Italy are recorded differently from town to town (for example, I found matches for "via Garibaldi" in some towns and for "via Giuseppe Garibaldi" in others, but a search just for "Garibaldi" matches only the former).

Is there any filter or wild character that may be used in the FindAddressResult function to perform a partial search of the street name part of the address ? Or shall I hope in a better search engine in the next release of MapPoint ?

Hi,

It will do a partial search in the beginning of the name. But not wildcards or things to find things in the middle or end of the name (as far as I know). You can however build yourself a database from out all the names by scanning the whole country.

Thank you Wilfried.

It seems Map Point Europe will not do a partial search in the beginning of the names (at least, for Italian addresses).

Can you tell me a good way to scan all the addresses of a country?


Thank you.

Hi,

To scan all addresses it is easy to do if you do like a television

make lat/long point at upper/left of the country. then make a scan offset of let's say 25 meter (?? maybe some experiment first) then start scanning, incrementing longitude until a certain maximum (upper / right of country), then decrement latitude, rewind longitude and start over again incrementing longitude. repeat until latitude reach a certain minimum (bottom line of country).

I never done this, but I think it look easy done. Maybe do first some experiment to see what a good offset is. Maybe 25 meter is to large because you could skip an entire (small) street. The smaller the more doubles you will get, so it has to be filtered out later.

I also suggest you do it on a machine that you dont use for a while, it may slow down the whole system and it could take very long time

Hi.

Thank you for your help.
I will try your algorithm and I think that I will use an offset of 5 or 10 meters, just to avoid missing small street.

my experience suggests you need an offset of 4 metres max.
running under winxp and compiled in vb6 it will take several weeks, and mappoint will crash after about 10 hours due to memory leakage....

Hi,

Thanks for feedback.

I'm not surprised about the time (I did not do any calculation), but the crash is a good feedback. So it is very important to keep track about used memoy and stop / start your application (eventually by write a batch fil from out of your application) tostart again and remember where you are.