[mkgmap-dev] Make --add-pois-to-areas default?

Sun Aug 16 10:44:17 BST 2009

Thilo Hannemann wrote:

> Regarding the "add-pois-to-areas": This is quite usable as it is now.  
> It actually *does* test whether there is already a POI present. To  
> avoid the "forest of POIs" problem it would be nice to have a function  
> to merge all similar POIs inside a configurable radius into one. This  
> would make sense for all POIs, not only the ones created from areas.

I think the POI creation should be more configurable. POIs for 
supermarkets do make sense, but I wouldn't want one for every piece of 
forest or landuse. Perhaps we could make POIs based on new rules for the 
style files?