[mkgmap-dev] Address include in polygons style file superfluous?

Thu Jan 17 15:21:07 GMT 2013

Hi WanMil,

Sounds good to me. Afaik my Oregon 450t  doesn't allow to search for anything
like an area. Well, a camping site is an area, but I think one
only wants to search fort the reception.

Gerd

> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:58:15 +0100
> From: wmgcnfg at web.de
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] Address include in polygons style file superfluous?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have started writing some pages for the new mkgmap documentation about 
> address search. This made me thinking if the address include is required 
> for the polygons style file. Is it possible to see the address 
> information of a polygon in a Garmin map (or better a mkgmap created map)?
> 
> If the answer is no we could remove the include from the polygons style 
> file which saves some memory and some processing steps. Additionally we 
> could remove the processing of polygons from the LocationHook.
> 
> The only thing that need to be changed is the -add-pois-to-areas option. 
> The POIs created by this option must be worked out by the LocationHook 
> because the polygons do not contain the address info any more. But I 
> think this would be easy.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> WanMil
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