[mkgmap-dev] Routing issue to POI

Sat Mar 30 13:34:24 GMT 2013

Him

On Sat, Mar 30, Enrico Liboni wrote:

> Folks, I'm sometime getting routing issues to some POIs - most seems ok but
> some are always showing the problem. I'm wondering if what I'm hitting is
> the problem described at:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/known_issues#add-pois-to-areas_sometimes_places_the_POI_outside_the_polygon
> 
> Here's what happens:
> * In my garmin device I select a poi
> * the device calculates the route, but the purple path displayed  does not
> follow real streets (it goes mostly parallel to them - see below pictures)
>
> Any idea?

Do you have a second map installed and active, for example the basemap?

This looks like as if your map does not have routeable ways in the
near and the Garmin jumps to the basemap. At least this is what
happens if I see such a "broken" routing.

Solution: Disable the basemap.

  Thorsten

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