Adding your own POI

[David White]

Hi all,

Is it possible, and if yes how ;o), to add your own set of POIs to your
osmand application?

A colleague of mine is getting an ethanol powered car and would like to
display on his map all the petrol stations that sell the stuff

The official web site in France provides the data in various format:
http://ethanol-e85.fr/POI_stations_E85.html

Which one could we use and how to transform and load it into osmand?

I suppose converting to an odb file would do??

Regards,

David
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DavidKW

[Leigh van der Merwe]

you can either add them using the inbuilt OSM editor (go to http://www.openstreetmap.org/ and click the edit tab).  Or an easier way would be to use the JOSM editor.

another way you could do it is to add them as you get to them with the OSMand inbuilt POI creator.  you do need a OSM account though.

then you can either get them from the net, or wait until you can get an updated file from geofabrik and build your own POI database (if using vector maps)

Either way to get them for everyone to use, you need to enter them into open street map.

Good work!

Palitu

[DavidKW]

Hi Palitu,

Unfortunately the licensing terms on the website do not allow us to
publish the information "en masse" directly into OSM, the various
files provided (in gpx, xml, kml, csv, etc.) on the site are for your
personal use so the idea would be to download one of their archives
and convert into SQLite format and load the odb file into the POI
folder.

mmm, just found another site providing more data in plenty of formats,
need to check licensing terms.

In the end it boils down to converting a gpx file to odb...

Alternatively, I noticed that osmand could load a GPX file containing
favorites, not ideal but at least it will display the information on
screen

David

On 9 mar, 10:54, Leigh van der Merwe <palitu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> you can either add them using the inbuilt OSM editor (go tohttp://www.openstreetmap.org/and click the edit tab).  Or an easier way

> would be to use the JOSM editor.
>
> another way you could do it is to add them as you get to them with the
> OSMand inbuilt POI creator.  you do need a OSM account though.
>
> then you can either get them from the net, or wait until you can get an
> updated file from geofabrik and build your own POI database (if using vector
> maps)
>
> Either way to get them for everyone to use, you need to enter them into open
> street map.
>
> Good work!
>
> Palitu
>

[Leigh van der Merwe]

fair enough.

though it would be good for you to input the data into OSM as you go, share the love, as they say.

im sure there would be away build it into the DB, but i'll leave that to some one more experienced.  If you do manage it, perhaps write a short tutorial so that others can learn from your experience.

Palitu

[clamel]

Hi all, maybe this howto can help:

http://clamel.netai.net/android/osmand_poi

let me know if all is ok :)

regards

Claudio

[andre van atten]

Nice work Claudio!

Do you allow me to put this on the Osmand wiki? Sure it is very handsome information to a lot of enthusiastic home mapping cookers!

Andre.oid

Op 18 mei 2011 09:33 schreef "clamel" <clam...@gmail.com> het volgende:

[clamel]

Thank you andre.. I'll be happy if you put it on the Osmand wiki :)

Claudio

On 18 Mag, 10:03, andre van atten <andrevanat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice work Claudio!
>
> Do you allow me to put this on the Osmand wiki? Sure it is very handsome
> information to a lot of enthusiastic home mapping cookers!
>
> Andre.oid

> Op 18 mei 2011 09:33 schreef "clamel" <clame...@gmail.com> het volgende:

[myke]

i need some help..

I want to have POI database on computer
then i'll add that POI image in osmand vector map on android, the
connection is by internet
so what kind of computer web server and web database software I should
use?
how to do those stuff? I desperately need guidance
thx..

[andre van atten]

Osmand does not support poi by http access, like kml, like Google maps does. However, that should be a nice feature.
Now odb file format is supported only. Please read http://clamel.netai.net/android/osmand_poi , about how to create odb file.

Andre

Op 23 mei 2011 20:03 schreef "myke" <my....@gmail.com> het volgende:

[bahmani iman]

hi i have an one questionThe ,the problem is converting database to kml file, not showing the kml file. We insert data into a uniform database from different databases and now we want to create a single kml file which include all the merged data from database. In the other words, the input of the program would be our sqlite database and the output would be a kml file to show the data on google ma
please help me
my email is:
ima...@live.com
fb.com/iman.bahmani

[john whelan]

The POIs can be added straight forwardly to OSM or an OSM format maps.  The problem comes in displaying them in the application.  Technically you should be able to create / edit the rendering rules in the XML file but although I've some experience editing the Maperitive rules the OSMAND XML rendering rules defeated me when I looked at them in notepad++.  They seem to cram a lot together in a single line.

Cheerio John