[mkgmap-dev] Buildings without POIs cannot be found

Wed Mar 3 08:30:26 GMT 2010

2010/3/3 Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela at iki.fi>:

> What if you explicitly define the POIs on the map?  Taking a building with
> amenity=supermarket as an example, you might want to define a bank=atm POI
> somewhere near the entrance and amenity=supermarket,building=entrance at
> the entrance.

Why would someone want to tag an extra supermarket right at the
antrance and tag it as supermarket and entrance?
Setting POIs at the entrance of the buildings they reside in makes no
sense to me. Just tag entrances as entrances and POIs as points or
areas just where they actually are...

There might also be "shop within shop" or a "mini-mall" at
> the supermarket, such as cafe, hairdresser, shoes, you name it.  None of
> these would be automatically generated by add-pois-to-areas, and you would
> not get the POI at the main entrance of the building.  In fact, you could
> get it outside the building if it is U- or L-shaped.

In this case, the "extra-shops" would already be tagged as seperate
POIs where they are, so there is no Problem to tag the main
supermarket as area...

-Martin