On 18/04/2010 09:46, Thilo Hannemann wrote: > The attached patch will prevent writing the additional POI information > (address, phone number) if > - it won't be shown (POIs with IDs 0x64xx to 0x66xx won't have their > information shown) > - there is no street given for that POI > > > > > > > This reduces the size of the map by about 5% for my map (with a lot of POIs > actually generated in the range 0x64xx to 0x66xx). > > It may be questionable to write no address information if there is no street > given. IMHO though, what I want to have from that additional information is > the street address. I can see on the map in which city and region the POI is > in and in most cases I can also see the distance to my current location. So > if I don't have at least a street name the information about the city and > region alone (which is most likely autogenerated and therefore error-prone > anyway) doesn't help. For my maps the additional size reduction of this is > less than 1 % (which I don't understand BTW, should be more). > > I'm not sure about the ID range 0x64xx to 0x66xx - has anybody tested this > and knows whether there are additional IDs that won't have their information > shown?
My tests suggest that only POIs in the range 0x2A00 to 0x32FF can carry address information. _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
