[mkgmap-dev] missing turn notes and city names out of polygons

Tue Apr 21 09:44:47 BST 2009

Hi!

stefan at binaervarianz.de schrieb:
> I found that the village is marked only as a polygon in the osm data.
> Could it be that city names without a dedicated node are not written to
> the poi list?

According to the discussions we had on the German list for place
polygons, this is definitely not intended. There should always be a node
for a city and probably also an area. See also
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place

So you should definitely check for the city centre and add a node there...

--
Gernot