[mkgmap-dev] Suppress POI names displayed on device

Wed Mar 24 07:17:11 GMT 2010

Charlie,
Thanks for your advice

Charlie> You can use extended labels in your TYP file to hide any labelling.   
Charlie> In TYPViewer, once you have opened the TYP:
Charlie> - click on the POI in question and edit it ("modifier")
Charlie> - set "label amelioré" to "oui" (i.e. extended labels to "yes")
Charlie> - set "Style de police" to "Pas de label (invisible)"

Ahh, that is exactly what I tried, although I didn't see it in TYPViewer, but handcopied it from MapTK's results. (that is, doing it in MapTK, save it as TYP, open with TYPViewer to see the result). Might have done something wrong - will try it again now that you gave me the correct french command. 
Its quite exiting to try and figure out the french!

Charlie> You can also compile TXT files to TYP using TYPViewer, in case you  
Charlie> didn't know this.

"Engegistrer le fichier.typ sous..."  ? Seems to be broken? Or I am.
I get a overflow error message no 6, and the file saves anyway but is empty.
Maybe I do something wrong? 
When trying to open the TYP again: "Erreur inconnue lors de l'ouverture du fichier : erreur n°380   Description: Invalid property value"
I even tried opening a file and saving it directly, without any editing and it still doesn't work. "l'ouverture" seems to mean something in the file header? I tried to change the FID & product ID to no avail. Maybe there is specific filename expectations? Eg. MapSetToolkit complains if the filename is too long, but I already tried to shorten it for TYPViewer.
-- 

I tried again, the results look like this - basicaly the same as I tried already. Maybe there is some small subtle difference I don't recognise. 
I will apply it to my map again tonight and see if it makes a difference.
(Note: MapsetToolkit does not translate Type=0x115 SubType=0x02 correct, so I handedit it to Type=0x11502, which seems to work)
[_point]
Type=0x115
SubType=0x02
String1=0x04,Spar
ExtendedLabels=Y
FontStyle=NoLabel (invisible)
CustomColor=No
DayXpm="10 10 4 1"   Colormode=16
"!	c #FFFFFF"
"#	c #00571F"
"%	c #00FF00"
"  	c none"
"  ######  "
" ##!!!!## "
"##!!##!!##"
"#!!!##!!!#"
"#!!####!!#"
"#!######!#"
"#!######!#"
"##!%##%!##"
"!##%##%##!"
"!!######!!"
;1234567890
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BennieD

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