[mkgmap-dev] Duplicate cities

Wed May 20 23:34:58 BST 2015

Hi Gerd,

 > When you use --add-pois-to-areas mkgmap will generate
 > a POI based on the existing data, and this POI will have the
 > tag place=city (for the example), so for each tile we calculate
 > different coordinates for the city POI.

Not only cites but all polygons can get duplicate POIs. Probably cities 
are worst, because they are easily accessible with search function.

 > You can solve this particular problem by telling splitter to keep
 > all administrative boundaries complete, but that will produce
 > a lot more data in each tile:
 > --boundary-tags=administrative

Looks like the easiest solution, so maybe we can allow for bigger tiles. 
I think you can save complete multipolygons too.

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Best regards,
Andrzej