Create a custom search by pressing the magnifying glass in the upper left, and then the categories tab > Custom search > Education....then check College and University. That will put an orange dot for each qualifying POI. Enabling Configure map > POI overlay labels will put a name under each dot.
On Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 4:32:20 PM UTC-8, john whelan wrote: > > In OSM it is a 61 node way. In other words fairly large. > > In contrast Ottawa University, Ottawa Ontario Canada has both a campus > outlined and a building tagged Ottawa University. It stands out a bit more > easily. > > St. John's College Santa Fe, NM is found quite nicely in nomation but > unfortunately osmand doesn't use it. > > Cheerio John > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 18:54, Akkana Peck <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Is there a way to show colleges and universities? They can be >> important landmarks when navigating a city. >> >> For instance, St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM is marked on the >> web version of OpenStreetMap, but I can't find any way to get OsmAnd >> to show it. It shows a big yellow area that seems to correspond to >> the college, but it doesn't show any label for the college until >> I zoom in so far that I'm only viewing about a quarter of the >> campus. None of the POI categories look relevant, and none of the >> ones I tried showed it. >> >> Curiously, searching for "st john" didn't find anything closer than >> 211 miles even when I was showing a view of Santa Fe that included >> the college (that seems like a bug), but searching for "college" found it. >> >> ...Akkana >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Osmand" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
