[mkgmap-dev] POI for buildings

Sun Feb 15 15:08:59 GMT 2009

Hi Stefan,

I think the problem is that a building is a area and not a single point. 
As far as I know the garmin devices will only mention points as POI in 
the lists. I already noticed the same problem with parking lots.

We could insert a virtual point in the middle of the area. In the 
attachment there is experimental code for the nod branch to do so. My 
simple and dirty implementation could result in duplicated POIs since 
some parking lots are already tagged with a extra single point. This 
could be prevented by checking if the area already contains such a point.

To make this also working with buildings I think you have to add 
building into resources/styles/default/polygons first. osm2mp uses 
garmin type 0x13 for buildings. Otherwise mkgmap just ignore such 
polygons ...

Berni.

Stefan Schunck schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> It seems to be valid in osm to tag a building with something like
>
> building yes
> name Pinakothek
> tourism museum
>
> Is there a way to generate POIs from something like this by mkgmap?
>
> Stefan
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