Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-25 Thread GerdP
Hi Dave, please check the archive: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_pagenode=5324443query=POI+searchablesort=date Gerd Dave Swarthout wrote When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-25 Thread Dave Swarthout
Yes, I already knew that, but thanks. I thought there might be a way to be more restrictive but I now think it's just that the All POIs search is just what it says it is: it displays *ALL* POIs. It's doing exactly what I told it to do. I sometimes use that option when I'm on a trip somewhere and

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-25 Thread Andrzej Popowski
Hi Dave, when you search for all POIs, then GPS look for all POI that are near your current position. It doesn't use index for that kind of search, so you can't exclude POIs selectively. You would have to remove them form map. You can try to search for a category of POIs or search by name to

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-25 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
Hi, On Tue, Aug 25, Dave Swarthout wrote: Yes, I already knew that, but thanks. I thought there might be a way to be more restrictive but I now think it's just that the All POIs search is just what it says it is: it displays *ALL* POIs. It's doing exactly what I told it to do. It is not,

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-24 Thread Steve Sgalowski
would not you be wise to construct your own style / poi file , then thoes pois you do not need are not added to your map ? Stephen On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com wrote: When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed

[mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-24 Thread Dave Swarthout
When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses, etc. Is there some way to tell mkgmap to exclude such POIs from its search results? -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

2015-08-24 Thread Brian Egge
I've tried without success to have the unnamed POI's show their OSM id. This would make it easier to assign names where I know them. Unfortunately, I have not had any success in creating a rule to do this. Any ideas on how to do this? On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:34 PM Steve Sgalowski