[mkgmap-dev] Visiblity of nodes vs. polygon pois

Wed Mar 23 19:09:06 GMT 2011

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:41:38PM +0100, Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
>If I understand it correctly mkgmap adds points with amenity=hospital 
>for the polygons, right?

If you specify --add-pois-to-areas, yes.

>I assumed that all of these hospital points have equal visibility, but
>they don't.
>
>All POIs of hospitals which are mapped as polygons in OSM are visible 
>up to zoomlevel 200 m, but all hospital POIs which were mapped in OSM 
>as points are visible up to 1,5 km.
>
>Why?

I have no idea. I have not paid attention or noticed this myself.

	Marko