thousands of POIs make osmand VERY slow - no POI activated!

[ralph lumen]

even after many restarts of osmand as well as my android phone it stays like that: parking, gas stations, public transport, red lights, shops, diners - all and everythings crowds my view, although NO POI are activated! help!

[Dmytro Prodchenko]

Hi! If those POIs have colored backgrounds, which are the default POIs, you can hide them all through Menu – Configure Map – Hide – POI icons and POI labels. If those POIs have orange backgrounds, they can be disabled in Menu – Configure Map – POI Overlay.

[ralph lumen]

thank you, that worked! and it even shows POIs if I activate specific ones. that doesn't seem logic to me, really ;-)

[ralph lumen]

no, it did not: when I needed certain POIs again, they were not shown. and as soon as I make POIs visible again (what is the use of invisible ones or why do we have to call for/reject them at 2 different places?) there are again ALL pois. I know that once worked, now the POI-function of osmand is unusable.

dmpr...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 um 09:54:34 UTC+2:

[Dmytro Prodchenko]

There are two types of POI icons on the map:

• Those with colored backgrounds are predefined and depend on the map style. You can disable or enable them all in Menu – Configure Map – Hide – POI icons, but unfortunately, there is no way to control which are left and which are not through the user interface.
• The second type has orange backgrounds that can be enabled from the Search or from Configure Map – POI Overlay. Here, you can choose different categories or even create your own category with the needed POI types

[ralph lumen]

ok, maybe this is a relatively new function. we now have to hide POIs first to not get drowned in them, then chose the ones we need. got it, thanks!

[Dmytro Prodchenko]

Colored POIs can be configured only through map style editing. They could overcrowd the map screen in dense city areas or if you change the map zoom option to a parameter less than 100%

[Bryce Nesbitt]

I'm here to learn the same thing.

The "hide" function and the "POI overlay...." function are so far apart in the menu, I never associated them as controlling the same thing.

But I still don't have what I'm seeking

• No POI or labels by default
• Specific POI's on demand.

When I "hide" everything then set "POI Overlay..." to "Drinking water" nothing shows up.

I have to search for "drinking water/man made" separately.

[Tom Crocker]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, 23:30 Bryce Nesbitt, <bry...@obviously.com> wrote:

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But I still don't have what I'm seeking

• No POI or labels by default
• Specific POI's on demand.

When I "hide" everything then set "POI Overlay..." to "Drinking water" nothing shows up.

I have to search for "drinking water/man made" separately.

When I use Hide: POI labels and POI icons I don't have POI labels (there's street and place names still). If I set POI overlay to water those POIs show up (same for other overlays). I don't have one called drinking water. Maybe it's a custom filter and it's wrong? Have you tried e.g. Food?