Marko, Thanks! These are very helpful.
On 8/13/09, Marko Mäkelä <marko.mak...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:47:07AM +0800, maning sambale wrote: >> What would be the best and more efficient way to enable address info >> in the POIs? > > I've been assigning the addr:* tags to all POIs recently. And phone, url, > opening_hours, name, name:* (for multilingual names) where applicable and > available. The url might not be translated into Garmin images, but the > addresses and phone numbers are. opening_hours is probably ignored in the > translation, and I'm only filling it in for bigger shops, not for > one-man-operations that can have flexible or irregular hours. > > The URL might be handy for a phone-GPS-type device later on. For example, > the URL of a bus stop (where available) shows the time table of passing > buses. > >> My previous attempts to use the is_in tag as a proxy to address info >> yield showed inaccurate results. >> >> My guess would be the full Karlsruche schema in liue of the is_in tags. > > The is_in looks too informal for me. One thing that is missing from the > Karlsruhe schema is i18n, though. Street and place names are bilingual > around here, but there's only one addr:street and addr:city. I've been > using the major language then, as with name. > > Marko > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev