Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Andy Townsend
On 01/10/2015 05:11, Warin wrote: -1 Here am I taking nodes and making them areas - thus removing the node. I think mkgmap needs some improvement to get relevant areas into POI ... if that is a problem. I'd put money on a mkgmap 'expert' tell us that it is not a mkgmap problem as it can be

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Warin
On 1/10/2015 4:50 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote: I guess I was talking about navigating there by aircraft. A 'point' calculated for an aerodrome area would be good enough until you had to select a runway .. where you would want the end points of the runway .. not the node of the aerodrome (most of

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread John Henderson
On 01/10/15 20:44, Andy Townsend wrote: I'm no mkgmap expert and even I manage to do it, using the "--add-pois-to-areas" flag. :) Wow, mkgmap has come a long way since the early days. Time for me to have another look and revise my flags :) One of the things it needs to do to be really

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 1 October 2015 at 21:17, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/10/2015 4:50 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote: > > I guess I was talking about navigating there by aircraft. > > A 'point' calculated for an aerodrome area would be good enough until you > had to select a runway .. where you would want

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Ian Sergeant
I guess I was talking about navigating there by aircraft. For passengers, sure you'd want a passenger terminal location, and an entrance to the same. Ultimately, regardless of what form of transport you use, you are going to be navigating to a point. The question is there an automated algorithm

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Ian Sergeant
Certainly when navigating to an airport, you need a 'point' to navigate to. An calculation of a valid airport point from a airport boundary that may often include industrial parks, etc, is problematic - verging on intractable. Having this point 500m off significantly breaks stuff. It's a

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Andrew Harvey
When travelling to an airport, you normally travel to a terminal which are separately mapped, ideally with an entrance=main. Where would you put this point at say Sydney where international and domestic are on opposite sides? I think it's not the same as admin_center for admin boundaries. On

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread Andrew Davidson
You might as well clean it up as somebody is eventually going to find it here: http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?schema=50=56568170 and do it anyway. On Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 19:31, Andrew Harvey wrote: Currently Melbourne Airport appears in