[mkgmap-dev] Description text

Thu Apr 15 21:35:02 BST 2010

Minko wrote:
> Hi,
> It would be great to be able to add more information to the pois.
> At the moment the information that can be seen is streetname, number, postal codes and placenames
> in the properties of some of the pois (the gps can't show this properties box on all kinds of pois unfortunately)
>
> I have been experimenting to 'fool' my Garmin to use addr:streetname etc for some other information and this trick worked.
>
> tourism=information 
>     {
> 		add addr:street='${opening_hours}';
>                 add addr:postcode='${website}' ; 
> 		add addr:city='${note}' ; 
>     } [0x.... resolution ..]
>   
That is a nice idea, but I really think, that the yet already hardcoded information should be expanded on more tags.

Dani