[OSM-talk] mkgmap POI details

[Steve Ratcliffe]

Hello

> 1) Is it possible to include more information with the PIOs. Such as
> contact numbers ('phone' tag), which would be for restuarants/etc?

This is certainly possible and I have been sent modifications that 
add phone and more to the POI records.  It wasn't in patch form so I've
been slow to integrate it but if you are keen to test it out, I will get it
done.

> 2) The bottom left of display (on Etrex Vista) says 'mapsource' under the
> map scale. Is this hard coded somewhere, or can it be made to say
> 'OpenStreetMap' somehow?

As others have said, this goes from 'basemap' when you are zoomed too far
out or not in the area of an installed map, through mapsource to 'overzoom'
when you are zoomed further in than the map supports.  As far as I know
these words cannot be changed by an installed map.

> 3) The '.img' map extends past my bounding box
> ([bbox=-115,49.25,-114,49.75]), is it possible to limit it to this and to
> cut ways to terminate at boundaries?

If you have an element like the following at the start of the .osm file:

	<bound box='-115,49.25,-114,49.75'/>

then it should clip the .img file to exactly those bounds including both
line and polygon features.  The 'bound' element is included by osmosis, but I
didn't realise that it wasn't used everywhere, so we probably need to
add another way of setting the bbox too.  But anyway the code is there to do
it.  See http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/6 for an example of how it looks.

..Steve