Hi Paco

1)

It does not create an osm file but an mp file.
a) The program creates an img displaying ALL types and subtypes. The default style only uses a small number of pois
It is meant to quickly test your device for any pois indexed or not and under which Garmin category

ie

When loading it onto your device you can find out

a) which types numbers correspond to which Garmin category
b) which other pois fall into the same Garmin category
c) which new categories suddenlyt appear on your device !, ie Book stores etc
d) which pois on your device are not indexed - Minko recently mentioned 0x2b05 for camp_site not being shown on some devices

It helps you when you want to show say different icons for different fuel operators AND make them searchable

2) Why there's a dependency on mkgmap r3612 ?

It will work with previous mkgmaps but not 100% - I'm not quite sure what the issue was

HTH

Nick

On 07/06/2015 09:40, Paco Tyson [via GIS] wrote:

Hi everyone,

I can't run this software and I'm wondering what it does exactly.
I understand that it creates an OSM file of a grid of all POI types in a specified range. Then you can run mkgmap to generate a Garmin map from this source file.

If that's true,
1) mkgmap.jar produces a map of all POIs in a grid pattern when called without any argument. How does POI-tester compares to that ?
2) Why there's a dependency on mkgmap r3612 ?

Thanks,
Paco
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