[mkgmap-dev] place=hamlet vs place=village

Fri Jul 1 08:34:57 BST 2011

Hi Minko,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:25:22AM +0200, Minko wrote:
>One more thing that has been reported on the forum, is the issue that 
>labels for hamlets in Mapsource are bigger than villages.

This did not occur to me, because the place=hamlet is virtually unknown 
in my country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_%28place%29 does not 
even have a Finnish translation.

>If I look on http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi it shows that 
>garmin type 0x1100 (used for hamlets) is shown as "City name(Point, 
>big)" whereas type 0x0b (villages) have "City name (Point, small)". 
>Maybe this can be turned around, villages -> 0x1100 hamlets  -> 0x0b ?

If nobody disagrees with this suggestion, I will do it.

	Marko