[mkgmap-dev] cannot add waypoints on an area polygon

Thu Feb 18 07:01:05 GMT 2010

Hi Maning,

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bri%20g/diary/9588 wrote:
> "Okay let me explain, if I store the point of exactly where I am that
> works, but usually I move the pointer to where the data point is, say
> a post box on the other side of the road, but that is in in an area,
> so the Garmin says no can do."
> 
> I'm wondering if this a device specific issue (Garmin HCx) or mkgmap.

It works on the Edge 705. Last week, I named a few leisure=park by 
recording POIs. They were already marked as areas and displayed with 
the Garmin default name of park (puisto in Finnish).

	Marko