[mkgmap-dev] Tagging restaurants and categories

Mon Mar 2 23:26:43 GMT 2020

On 02/03/2020 20:07, blc wrote:

 >  Comments, or perhaps nobody really uses these things to find shops 
anymore...

Well I certainly do!

 > This is a bit tougher to manage with the automatic categorization 
with the template tags when editing in iD.

First things first, I'd try and get the tagging right in OSM itself (via 
iD or whichever other editor you're using).  For a donut place I'd have 
expected amenity=fast_food, but maybe for some amenity=cafe would be OK 
for some.  I'm guessing a bit here because I'm from the UK and donuts 
aren't really a thing here - we have healthy alternatives like Greggs' 
Steak Bakes and Pukka Pies instead :)

 > I found a few independent donut shops and having a hard time deciding 
whether to mark them as fast_food as they definitely are, but they will 
subsequently not show up as a donut/bagel shop.

Well "what things show up as" on a Garmin depends on what rules you 
write in in the style used to create the Garmin map.  I've not tried it, 
but I guess that you could write some fairly complicated rules that 
identified donut places and mapped them to "0x0d" from 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types . It'd 
be up to the people packaging the "standard" style whether that 
incorporated those rules, but there's nothing stopping you creating your 
own style with them.

 > it seems that perhaps only one category can be added per restaurant.

I don't think that creating multiple Garmin POIs per OSM POI is possible 
using mkgmap "out of the box".  I did experiment with it ages ago, but 
didn't go anywhere with it as it didn't really seem beneficial - you've 
always got the option of searching "all food and drink" to cut across 
subcategories.*

Best Regards,

Andy

* on my Garmin anyway - I'm aware that different models vary.