On Tue, Jan 28, Minko wrote: > Please read the forum. > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=394440#p394440
I followed that forum. > This will help mappers to fill in those unknown and remote territories and it > will help stranded travellers to look for a settlement on the map although > the name is not mapped on OSM yet, you can expect at least some > 'civilization'. I don't see that argument there, only that you cannot change that by editing the TYP file. > If you travel there, you can see at least there is a town, only the local > name is not been mapped yet. > It appears in the search as 'unknown' or 'place' but it will not make the > index crash does it? There were reports that some devices crashes with empty names last year, but don't remember details anymore. Thorsten > > > Which sense would it make to have cities without name? > > Ok, you see there is a city, but you don't know which one > > and you cannot search for them. And it will fill up the search > > list with "Noname" entries (or whatever else default name your > > device will use). > > > > Thorsten > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev -- Thorsten Kukuk, Senior Architect SLES & Common Code Base SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
