[mkgmap-dev] Options

Tue Apr 28 13:06:21 BST 2015

Hello Gerd,
sorry for the delay.

"better than nothing" simply means that this is actually the only possibility, to create Points along a way to mark a hiking trail based on relations.
In fact this is not really satiesfying but it is actually the only way. That's the reason why i said "better than nothing".

OSMCOMPOSER-Software which is a type of frontend to mkgamp has a builtin preprocessor, which is able to create points along way relation.
Here you have the possibilty to configure which relations you wanna use e.g hiking|cycling|MTB and the minimum lenght, of way beeing part or a relation to get a poi.
If there are multiple routes, the pois will be distributed, to fit in a way that they are all visible.
Ok, it's clear, depending on length and amount of pois, they will overlap.

regards
Gert

>>From Gerd Petermann gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com on Fri Apr 24 06:35:07 BST 2015

>>Hi Gert,

>> yes, I think it must be useful, I also see it in Minkos styles at
>> http://www.openfietsmap.nl/

>> I don't fully understand the "better than nothing" part .
>> The current code adds a POI to each point, so each point has 
>> a mkgmap:line2poitype=* tag with values start,end,mid, or inner 
>> for the rest.

>> The option should be handled with great care, it is likely to
>> produce a large number of POI for highly detailed ways
>> created by some imports.
>> I already thought about an addtional parameter for the option,
>> something like --add-pois-to-lines=n where n gives a value in meter
>> for the minimum distance between two generated POI when the way
>> has more than 3 points. 

>> Gerd