Well, it can be dafaulted to on, but sometimes one may want to not
translate node properties to ways.  For example: a map may have barriers
and one may want to have such as POIs in an alert file for Garmin POI
Loader instead of them interfering with routing.  It all depends on map
purpose.


2014-08-06 8:44 GMT-03:00 Greg Troxel <[email protected]>:

>
> Paulo Carvalho <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >    Just checking: did you remember to use the --link-pois-to-ways option
> in
> > your compile command?  Also, did you place the barrier node apart from
> the
> > way or did you format a way node as a barrier? (the latter is
> preferable, I
> > think.)
>
> As I understand it, the semantics of OSM are that a barrier node in a
> way does control access.  So it's a bug if mkgmap by default does not
> produce a map that respects that.  Essentially, I'm arguing that
> --link-pois-to-ways should default to on, following the principle that
> there is a correct garmin representation of OSM semantics and that this
> correct representation should be the default.
>
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