[mkgmap-dev] Replacing --add-pois-to-areas with an add_poi action

Mon Jan 31 20:41:25 GMT 2011

Am 31.01.2011 21:20, schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:31:09PM +0100, Henning Scholland wrote:
>> Am 31.01.2011 20:16, schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
>>> On a related note, I believe that an alternative to add-pois-to-areas
>>> should be implemented, by introducing an add_poi action in the polygons
>>> style file. In that way, one could flexibly choose which polygons
>>> deserve a POI.
>> I found an easy way to "fix" this issue. I set one Garmin-polygon-ID
>> with a transparent image.
>> In polygons-style-file I created as example the following rule:
>>
>> shop=supermarket&  building!=* [0x0D resolution 23]
>>
>> For building=yes I've an extra rule. 0x0D is my transparent Garmin-ID.
>> It works fine. Only default name should be set in the rule and not in
>> TYP-file.
> Oh, you seem to have a different use case for the add_poi feature. I was
> thinking that I do not necessarily want to have a POI for certain areas,
> say, amenity=school&  name!=* or amenity=parking&  access=private. You
> seem to not want a polygon for features for which POIs are to be
> generated. The add_poi action would help also there: just tell mkgmap to
> create the POI but not the polygon. For instance, do not create a
> polygon for amenity=recycling or tourism=lean_to, but just the POI.
>
> 	Marko
Yes of cause a better implementation would help both of us.
But if you want to search for a POI, it must be a node and so I need to 
have for some areas a node. If there is no rule for a area-tag in 
points-file, there wont be an node from --add-pois-to-area. Why you 
would like to have a POI for an object taged as node and not for a 
similar POI taged as polygon?

Henning