I have a working solution for ensuring that the created point is placed within the polygon when using --add-pois-to-areas, based on drawing the polygon on to a small monochrome bitmap and then looking for the point that is furthest from the surrounding area. I used a 9x9 bitmap for polygons having a small number of points and 15x15 for longer polygons. There is however a performance penalty. My standard map takes about 1 hour 20 minutes; using this algorithm the time increases by about 50% to about 2 hours. I am not currently able to commit changes to SVN (perhaps someone can help out with that) but I have attached the code changes. I suggest that due to the performance penalty, if we adopt this, then the --add-pois-to-areas option be extended to be --add-pois-to-areas[=centre|optimised] or something similar, with the default being centre and functioning as now and the optimised option invoking the new code. Please try out the suggested change. Note I don't expect this to work properly where a polygon is formed from a multiploygon relation, but the code could quite easily be adapted for this circumstance. Regards, Mike