07.03.2010 02.58.19, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:
I think perhaps we could ask at osm to get a small area (e.g. in the atlantic or pacific ocean or something like that), that is a "playground" to test tags and icons.In the meantime I eg tagged some very important shops in a Shopping Centre nearby. It is all correct, but I used it to test my icons. ;-)
There is no need to upload bogus data to the server. You can create a *.osm file yourself in JOSM. Or you can download a nearby area and create all sorts of shops and restaurants in your neighbourhood. I have done that a couple of times. Also to test mkgmap:unpaved, I downloaded some area around my home and did some virtual road paving and unpaving. There is also the test-map (sp?) feature of mkgmap. It generates all POIs in an area centered around BASE_LAT and BASE_LONG (default somewhere close to London, almost at 0N 0E). I filled in the "Edge 705" column at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types and corrected part of garmin_feature_list.csv based on my observations. Marko