[mkgmap-dev] Make --add-pois-to-areas default?

Sun Aug 16 22:12:28 BST 2009

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:44:17AM +0200, Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
> Thilo Hannemann wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the "add-pois-to-areas": This is quite usable as it is now.  
> > It actually *does* test whether there is already a POI present. To  
> > avoid the "forest of POIs" problem it would be nice to have a function  
> > to merge all similar POIs inside a configurable radius into one. This  
> > would make sense for all POIs, not only the ones created from areas.
> 
> I think the POI creation should be more configurable. POIs for 
> supermarkets do make sense, but I wouldn't want one for every piece of 
> forest or landuse. Perhaps we could make POIs based on new rules for the 
> style files?

+1 for that.

Generally, I don't think that it makes sense to create POIs for unnamed
areas (such as farms or forests), except areas that are often unnamed,
such as parking areas.

Could we have something that allows us to define the POIs in the lines
style file, something like this to have POIs created for named forests
and all playgrounds, named or not:

natural=wood name=* { add-point; }
leisure=playground { add-point; }

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