Hi Gerd, due to your reply I got, that sea areas are defined by a coastline never hold names ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Gew%C3%A4sser ). Meanwhile I discovered multipolygons as http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7645796 which name sea areas (this is nameless in my outputs, but the part east of the state border has the correct name). I guess, many (all?) my readings of lagoons are realized in that way. My first tries to add a working code to my style failed. Your idea for a new algo to name at least the main sea areas sounds very good to me. May polygone shapes be a solution to segregate the "parent" sea (e.g. Indian Ocean), "childs" (e.g. Arabian Sea) and the "grand-childs" (e.g. Gulf of Aden)? But how to avoid redundancies with coastlines? It seems to be more challenging than the geonames-file. Jörn [mkgmap-dev] Precompiled sea tiles contain no names - how to add names of sea, lagoons etc?

From Gerd Petermann gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com on Tue Nov 28 20:14:19 GMT 2017

Hi Jörn, do you know a source for the names? The input for mkgmap which is used to generate the precompiled data doesn't contain the names. I guess it would be possible to implement an algo similar to that for the geonames-file option in splitter. Or do you think that OSM contains the info? Gerd ________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Jörn <joern.de at gmail.com> Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. November 2017 15:54:52 An: Development list for mkgmap Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Precompiled sea tiles contain no names - how to add names of sea, lagoons etc? Hi developers, I use the precompiled sea tiles http://osm2.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de/sea/latest/sea.zip as mentioned on the mkgmap download site. Unfortunately the tiles do *not* contain names. How can I add the names (at least in English, local languages would be nice) to my maps? And no, precompiling on my own isn't the answer I'm looking for ;-) Thanks for your ideas, Joern