[mkgmap-dev] small issue with Way.getCofG()

Sat Jan 3 04:34:14 GMT 2015

Hi all,

We use the method Way.getCofG() to calculate a single 
coordinate for shapes, e.g. for buildings with house numbers.
The routine calculates the avg. latitude and longitude of
all points, which typically gives a point somewhere close 
to the middle of the shape, but it seems to ignore
the fact that the first and last point in a shape are equal
to close it, means, the result will be a bit too close to that
closing point.
Is there a good reason for this? 

We use it also to calculate the POI in --add-pois-to-areas.

Gerd
P.S. I guess a better formular could calculate the convex hull
first, but I doubt that the additional CPU time would 
really improve the result that much.

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