Hi,

I'm almost in the same situation (see my question from March, 12th "Searchable 
Custom POIs <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/osmand/AV1J_HdUJmk>"). 
I really appreciate OSMand's versatility and hope that this feature comes 
back in a vanilla way.

There's one permanent fix and 2 immediate (temporary) workarounds:

a) Use F-Droid to get an older version of Osmand:

Reinstall an older version of the app from F-Droid, the Free and Open 
Source *Android* App Repository. Generally, it's considered bad practice to 
side-load apps from a security standpoint, but F-Droid is an exception 
here, as it's a curated repository of benign FOSS apps. You need to enable 
"install from unknown sources" in the security settings section. If you do 
so, I strongly suggest to install the F-Droid store, you can later on 
enable the "archive" repository, if the version that you want vanishes from 
F-Droid's normal repo (the archive is not accessible on the web, you need 
to enable the "archive repo" to see very old versions in the f-droid store 
app).

Site: https://f-droid.org
Osmand: 
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=osmand&fdid=net.osmand.plus

b) edit the POI config XML file by hand:

I tested with editing/replacing poi_types.xml with the version from 2.4.6 
(it's in the osmand folder where the map data files are as well), but to no 
avail. Maybe it's broken at the moment or I'm doing something wrong.

c) maybe osmand devs investigate/re-add the feature. I'd be very glad.

cheers,
Christian

Am Montag, 20. März 2017 01:38:09 UTC+1 schrieb Win Olario:
>
> Hello. I'm an OsmAnd user from the Philippines, and an OpenStreetMap 
> advocate.
>
> I've always recommended OsmAnd to our friends working in emergency 
> services, and recently it came to my attention that it's no longer possible 
> to search or display the fire hydrant POIs. This is feature was one of the 
> strongest points to highlight the OpenStreetMap database, and the power of 
> OsmAnd for our use case.
>
> Do you know what happened, and when this particular feature was dropped? I 
> can still see the hydrants being rendered but they're no longer searchable, 
> even with custom searches. They're not even part of the Emergency feature 
> search anymore.
>
> Any suggested workarounds?
>

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