[mkgmap-dev] places without a name not rendered

Tue Jan 28 10:05:27 GMT 2014

On Tue, Jan 28, Minko wrote:

> Please read the forum.
> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=394440#p394440

I followed that forum.

> This will help mappers to fill in those unknown and remote territories and it will help stranded travellers to look for a settlement on the map although the name is not mapped on OSM yet, you can expect at least some 'civilization'.

I don't see that argument there, only that you cannot change that by
editing the TYP file.

> If you travel there, you can see at least there is a town, only the local name is not been mapped yet.
> It appears in the search as 'unknown' or 'place' but it will not make the index crash does it?

There were reports that some devices crashes with empty names
last year, but don't remember details anymore.

  Thorsten

> 
> > Which sense would it make to have cities without name?
> > Ok, you see there is a city, but you don't know which one
> > and you cannot search for them. And it will fill up the search
> > list with "Noname" entries (or whatever else default name your
> > device will use).
> > 
> > Thorsten
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