Thanks! I still wish I could have them labeled on the map, but I
didn't know about Custom search, which finds this particular college
just fine, and it looks like there are other categories in there
as well that might come in handy some day.
...Akkana
Bart Eisenberg writes:
> 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
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