[mkgmap-dev] add building names in building polygon, make it searcheable.

Thu Sep 10 12:19:26 BST 2009

OK will look at the patch.  Given your experience I think you are
correct, map will be too crowded.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Clinton Gladstone
<clinton.gladstone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, maning
> sambale<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently building polygons have names in my area.  How do I add the
>> names  in the map and enable search?
>
> A while back I believe I posted a patch which modified the polygons
> style file to add names (and house numbers) to buildings. This makes
> the name, and house number if present, be displayed in the polygon.
>
> When I did this, I noticed that the only way to make the buildings
> appear in searches was to use the area to POI option: I added
> corresponding building entries to the points file. However this caused
> such an over-proliferation of POIs that I found the approach to be
> impracticable.
>
> Chhers.
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