[mkgmap-dev] Road Name POIs

Sun Mar 8 07:50:50 GMT 2009

Hi Mark,
>> As this has now been merged to trunk I thought I'd have a look as I've
>> never properly tried to use it before. I'm sure that I'm missing
>> something as having compiled a map with the --road-name-pois option I
>> don't see anywhere I can search for road names.
>>     
>
> Well, with the original road name pois code they used to appear under a
> category called "geographic points" or similar. With the introduction
> of the new all-singing, all-dancing POI address stuff, they seem to have
> disappeared. 
>
> Perhaps Bernhard knows where they have gone?
>
>   
I think it really depends on the garmin device how it handles the road 
pois. On my Nuvi 360 I never found a special category for the road pois. 
The only way to use them is to do a search over all pois. I'm pretty 
sure that my changes didn't change anything in that area. I personally 
always use --road-name-pois=0x2900 for my maps because the default value 
0x640a lack support for address information.

Thanks
Berni.