[mkgmap-dev] Is it possible to keep the POI IDs constant?

Fri Apr 28 19:42:49 BST 2017

Hi

This may have no bearing on the subject but I have found on my oregons 
and gps64 that the 'recent finds' list are tied to the map id

Such info is stored internally on the device.

r

Nick

On 28/04/2017 19:37, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> no idea what kind of ID that can be. Do you know how the device stores this information?
> The POI don't have an ID, and there is no place to put one.
>
> Gerd
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> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Alexandre Folle de Menezes <afmlistas at terra.com.br>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. April 2017 19:57:31
> An: Development list for mkgmap
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Is it possible to keep the POI IDs constant?
>
> Hi,
>
> My device has a very useful feature of remembering the last POIs I have
> used.  The problem is that every time I build a new map, the POIs seem
> to change the ID and some random POIs appears on my recent list.  I
> assume the POI IDs are assigned independently from the IDs in OSM, which
> causes them to change on every compilation. Would it be possible to
> assign the POI IDs based on the OSM IDs to solve this issue?
>
> Best regards,
>
>       Alexandre
>
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