Hi Randolph Some comments, embedded, on your changes. On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 18:28 -0500, Randolph J. Herber wrote:

In case that I grabbed points and polygons files that I had already modified, I included both before and after versions as well as a patch file for each.

Sometimes your supplied file doesn't match the diffs, which don't seem to be against the most recent default style.

I never really liked the cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and hamlets handling. Now, they are by size only. In the USA, the difference has more to do with legal privileges than anything else. There are such entities with populations over 20 million: Shanghai, Beijing and Lagos and there are extant entities with names and no recorded population. They are often called ghost towns. In some states, they even have legal protection.

I haven't found the existing city/town/village/suburb/hamlet rules a particular problem and it is all a bit arbitrary especially as "Find" > "Cities" doesn't differentiate between the codes. However your solution relies on the population tag being set and it frequently isn't. I don't like the way you've moved pizza forward a long way in the file, before many of the 'continue' rules and away from the food section. pizza already uses a different type (0x2a0b) from italian (0x2a08); your changes to the rules say, in a slightly convoluted way, that the fast_food tag is ignored for pizza. Also, if there are different capitalization of pizza in ~".*pizza.*", there is a method of doing a case-insensitive match.

I wanted to break out places of worship by religion for at least some of the major religions. I can supply icons for them. Making icons is easy for me.

amenity=place_of_worship & religion=christian [0x2c0e resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship & religion=muslim [0x2c0d resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship & religion=jewish [0x2c10 resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship & religion=buddhist [0x2c0f resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship & religion=hindu [0x2c1f resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship & religion=bahai [0x2c1e resolution 24] amenity=place_of_worship [0x2c0b resolution 24]

Therefore, I changed the code in this line to move that item out of the block of codes that I am using.

Newer devices do support 0x2c0d .. 0x2c0f in the way you've specified, but I've not see use of 0x2c1e or 0x2c1f and they may not be found under "Community" > "Place of Worship". If these haven't been sanctioned by Garmin it is possible they will use these codes for some other purpose in the future.

tourism=* & tourism!=no & tmp:stopMopUp!=yes [0x2f00 resolution 24]

You've changed the code for unspecified tourism from 0x2c0d (which is now a mistake because Garmin had now used this code - see above - and I don't know why I didn't spot this and change it) to 0x2f00 (Find>Other). 0x2c00 (Find>Attraction) might be a better choice. Some of your food changes are wrong: 0x2a04 is Chinese and you've used it for Chicken. I think that tagging an establishment with cuisine=fast_food should generally make it findable with "Food and Drink" > "Fast Food"

I used Wolfram Mathematica (mostly, just because it was convenient) to process the style files and some lists from the Maps Tool Kit to see what codes are available and which mkgmap style files were using. I attached that file as well in case it may be of use to you.

I separated prisons and military areas in both points and polygons.

You've used 0x14 for prison; The default name/colour for this is Park/Green and some systems expand on this to be "National Park". I'd recommend 0x27 which, without a TYP file, is an Area/Pale. Ticker