Dear ax, Some people find it useful, some don't. For me, the garmin map is more of a debugging tool rather than a navigation gadget (I can find my way even without a GPS given enough travel preparations). Moreover, search in mkgmap doesn't really work well right now. Therefore, you can't use the "search by State" in most garmin devices with OSM/mkgmap data.
I don't have a strong opinion for or against this in the garmin map. If others see this as map junk/clutter we can disable it. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Axel Kollmorgen <akollmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Disclosure: >>>> I'm appending the is_in:state tags to town and cities points in the >>>> osm-ph garmin map. See: >>>> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4677828307_622655ea75.jpg > > i'm not liking this too much. most of the times i know the province i am in > or want to go to. the province name behind the place name adds clutter to > the map and distracts from more important information. what are the benefits > of having it like this? does it out-weight the disadvantages? isn't there a > way to have the information on the province available (for searching etc.), > but not showing it behind every place name on the map? > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
