Import many (100k+) POIs into OsmAnd

[David Bengoa Rocandio]

Hi,

I'm trying to display about 100k POIs in OsmAnd, I tried to convert them into GPX, which resulted in a 250MB file (each point has some description too), when importing into OsmAnd as favourites OsmAnd hangs and eventually crashed with OutOfMemory, so I guess it's not the way to go.

How should go about doing this?

Regards,

David

[john whelan]

If they are interesting and have the correct licence have you thought about importing them into OpenStreetMap?

Be aware there is a process to do this and it might be more complex than first appears.

Cheerio John

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[Greg Troxel]

David Bengoa Rocandio <da...@bengoarocandio.com> writes:

> I'm trying to display about 100k POIs in OsmAnd, I tried to convert them
> into GPX, which resulted in a 250MB file (each point has some description
> too), when importing into OsmAnd as favourites OsmAnd hangs and eventually
> crashed with OutOfMemory, so I guess it's not the way to go.

I haven't actually done this, but it seems obvious :-) that you should
convert them to osm format and then use

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAndMapCreator

to make a mapfile, that will then get unioned into what is searchable.

[Greg Troxel]

john whelan <jwhel...@gmail.com> writes:

> If they are interesting and have the correct licence have you thought about
> importing them into OpenStreetMap?
>
> Be aware there is a process to do this and it might be more complex than
> first appears.

Understatement of the year!

I would say "if you have never done an osm import, you will almost
certainly underestimate the difficulty of doing one by 10x".

Certainly getting good data with an ok license into osm is a fine thing
to do. But I would encourage the OP to use osmandmapcreator first, and
to publish the osm POI file if the license is ok with that.

[David Bengoa Rocandio]

Thanks for the suggestions, sadly the POIs are neither very interesting for the general public nor the license allows me to publish them in OSM.

I'll try converting to osm and then converting them to a map file.

Thanks,

David

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[Majka]

Do not import the gpx as "import favorites". Simply put the gpx in the "tracks" subfolder, and you will have it available in OsmAnd. It doesn't matter if it is a route (track) or POIs, OsmAnd will can display both.