[mkgmap-dev] Replacing --add-pois-to-areas with an add_poi action

Thu Feb 3 11:51:37 GMT 2011

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Torsten Leistikow <de_muur at gmx.de> wrote:
> Moin,
>
> Henning Scholland schrieb am 31.01.2011 21:41:
>> Why you
>> would like to have a POI for an object taged as node and not for a
>> similar POI taged as polygon?
>
> In OSM some objets can be mapped in OSM as a node or as an area, depending on
> the availability of the source data. If they are mapped as a node, I want them
> to be displayed as a symbol in my map. If they are mapped as an area, I want
> them to be displayed as a polygon. With the pois-to-area function the latter
> ones are displayed in a map twice, as a polygon AND as a symbol.

That's a bug. If I recall correctly, the POI should only be added if
there's no POI with the same name already in the polygon. I should
really fix this. Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers, Ben