Hello Gerd, sorry for the delay. "better than nothing" simply means that this is actually the only possibility, to create Points along a way to mark a hiking trail based on relations. In fact this is not really satiesfying but it is actually the only way. That's the reason why i said "better than nothing". OSMCOMPOSER-Software which is a type of frontend to mkgamp has a builtin preprocessor, which is able to create points along way relation. Here you have the possibilty to configure which relations you wanna use e.g hiking|cycling|MTB and the minimum lenght, of way beeing part or a relation to get a poi. If there are multiple routes, the pois will be distributed, to fit in a way that they are all visible. Ok, it's clear, depending on length and amount of pois, they will overlap. regards Gert
From Gerd Petermann gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com on Fri Apr 24 06:35:07 BST 2015
Hi Gert,
yes, I think it must be useful, I also see it in Minkos styles at http://www.openfietsmap.nl/
I don't fully understand the "better than nothing" part . The current code adds a POI to each point, so each point has a mkgmap:line2poitype=* tag with values start,end,mid, or inner for the rest.
The option should be handled with great care, it is likely to produce a large number of POI for highly detailed ways created by some imports. I already thought about an addtional parameter for the option, something like --add-pois-to-lines=n where n gives a value in meter for the minimum distance between two generated POI when the way has more than 3 points.
Gerd