[mkgmap-dev] Exclude POIs from index

[Dave Swarthout]

When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed
POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses, etc. Is there some way to tell
mkgmap to exclude such POIs from its search results?

[Steve Sgalowski]

would not you be wise to construct your own style / poi file , then thoes
pois you do not need are not added to your map ?

Stephen

Post by Dave Swarthout
When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed
POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses, etc. Is there some way to tell
mkgmap to exclude such POIs from its search results?
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Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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[Brian Egge]

I've tried without success to have the unnamed POI's show their OSM id.
This would make it easier to assign names where I know them.
Unfortunately, I have not had any success in creating a rule to do this.
Any ideas on how to do this?

Post by Steve Sgalowski
would not you be wise to construct your own style / poi file , then thoes
pois you do not need are not added to your map ?
Stephen

Post by Dave Swarthout
When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless
unnamed POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses, etc. Is there some way to
tell mkgmap to exclude such POIs from its search results?
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Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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[GerdP]

Hi Dave,

please check the archive:
http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=5324443&query=POI+searchable&sort=date

Gerd

Post by Dave Swarthout
When I search for All POIs on my Garmin Montana I get many useless unnamed
POIs, even power poles, barriers, houses, etc. Is there some way to tell
mkgmap to exclude such POIs from its search results?
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Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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[Andrzej Popowski]

Hi Dave,

when you search for all POIs, then GPS look for all POI that are near
your current position. It doesn't use index for that kind of search, so
you can't exclude POIs selectively. You would have to remove them form map.

You can try to search for a category of POIs or search by name to get
only a selection of POIs.

[Dave Swarthout]

Yes, I already knew that, but thanks. I thought there might be a way to be
more restrictive but I now think it's just that the All POIs search is just
what it says it is: it displays *ALL* POIs. It's doing exactly what I told
it to do. I sometimes use that option when I'm on a trip somewhere and
looking for a POI and don't know which category to pick at the top level
search. Having a list of nearby POIs often helps but one has to scroll
through a lot of extra stuff to find anything useful. That's what I was
trying to avoid and that's why I asked the question.

I'm resolved now. Thanks to all.

Post by GerdP
Hi Dave,
when you search for all POIs, then GPS look for all POI that are near your
current position. It doesn't use index for that kind of search, so you
can't exclude POIs selectively. You would have to remove them form map.
You can try to search for a category of POIs or search by name to get only
a selection of POIs.
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Andrzej
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[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

Post by Dave Swarthout
Yes, I already knew that, but thanks. I thought there might be a way to be
more restrictive but I now think it's just that the All POIs search is just
what it says it is: it displays *ALL* POIs. It's doing exactly what I told
it to do.

It is not, or more precise: it depends on your firmware.
I have one device, which is only showing POIs which are part of the
index. So here you can suppress POIs, if you don't put them in the
index.
But I have also two newer devices, which seem to ignore the index
completly and always search for POIs in the image. Here you cannot
suppress any POIs. And even worse, this is of course much slower :(

Thorsten