Minko <ligfietser@online.nl> writes:
Greg wrote:
Can you explain when you want to have a POI for every node in a way? It seems the area->POI code makes one POI for the closed way, and this is different. (Not trying to be difficult; I really don't get it.)
I use the add-poi-to-lines option only in a few cases (yet), and I don't use it on every node either, but only in the middle of a road segment (mkgmap:line2poitype=mid).
One example is on lines tagged with route=ferry & opening_hours=* http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40326852
route=ferry & opening_hours=* & mkgmap:line2poitype=mid {name '${name} (${opening_hours})' | 'operating ${opening_hours}' } [0x6406 resolution 24]
This is a screenshot of my map: http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5582/ferryroute.jpg
Before add-poi-to-lines was introduced I used an extra line to render opening_hours, but the disadvantage is that you often cannot see this info on the GPS (it displays the streetname only, or in this case where there is no streetname, it shows the bike route relation name). Other cases that you can use this are for example incline, smoothness, tracktype, access tags etc.
Thanks. I understand why you want to create one POI from a linear feature. I still don't understand why it would make sense to make a POI per node. What I'm getting at is that perhaps the line2poi code should somehow default to making only one synthetic point POI. I have the impression it didn't, and you were posting code to work around that.