[mkgmap-dev] [patch] hospital POI improvements

Mon Feb 15 20:11:58 GMT 2016

I agree with emergency=yes. I was getting many Hospital symbols for clinics
where you really do not want a Hospital ICON. I am adding emercency=yes tag
to 'real' hospitals.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found a problem with the hospital POIs in the default style. When you
> use the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' functionality, all hospitals, clinics,
> dentists and doctors show up in the list. The 'Where am I?' seems like it's
> something I would use in an emergency so it makes sense to only add
> hospitals with the 'emergency=yes' tag. This patch also splits out
> hospitals without emergency departments, clinics, dentists, doctors and
> other healthcare providers into separate POIs so people can update the TYP
> file if they want.
>
> I tested this patch on my Nuvi 255w and it seems to work. Only hospitals
> tagged with 'emergency=yes' show up in the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' list.
> The other POIs turn up with the same heath care plus icon. The only
> downside I can see is that not all hospitals are correctly tagged with
> 'emergency=yes' so these won't be in the 'Where am I? -> Hospitals' list.
> In my mind, this a problem with the data and there's not much to do about
> except fix it in OSM.
>
> Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Ben
>
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