[mkgmap-dev] places without a name not rendered

Tue Jan 28 10:07:03 GMT 2014

On 28.01.2014 11:05, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, Minko wrote:
>
>> Please read the forum.
>> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=394440#p394440
> I followed that forum.
>   
>> This will help mappers to fill in those unknown and remote territories and it will help stranded travellers to look for a settlement on the map although the name is not mapped on OSM yet, you can expect at least some 'civilization'.
> I don't see that argument there, only that you cannot change that by
> editing the TYP file.
>
>> If you travel there, you can see at least there is a town, only the local name is not been mapped yet.
>> It appears in the search as 'unknown' or 'place' but it will not make the index crash does it?
> There were reports that some devices crashes with empty names
> last year, but don't remember details anymore.

Yip, I can remember that too. You do need to give a name to a city poi - 
or make it a POI using a different hexcode outside of the city search..
>
>    Thorsten
>
>>> Which sense would it make to have cities without name?
>>> Ok, you see there is a city, but you don't know which one
>>> and you cannot search for them. And it will fill up the search
>>> list with "Noname" entries (or whatever else default name your
>>> device will use).
>>>
>>> Thorsten
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