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Hello Jurajs, I must say you are doing a great work and it's exciting. Thank you!

Hello Jurajs, the produced maps with contour lines are excellent. Nevertheless, I have one more suggestion for practical use in the open fields/mountains. Typical destinations that hikers are looking for on their device, such as huts, ruins, bus stops, etc. are currently shown only in "extreme" zoom levels 17 or higher. There is the possibility to create or modify the XML file of a "Theme", but this will not work because the tag-mapping file used by mapwriter for creating the map file does not allow those tags to appear.

This could be solved when the tag-mapping.xml file is being adjusted for example as below. This would make it possible to show alpine huts at level 14 and some other tags at 15:

<osm-tag key="highway" value="bus_stop" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="amenity" value="place_of_worship" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="amenity" value="restaurant" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="shop" value="supermarket" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="railway" value="halt" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="railway" value="tram_stop" zoom-appear="15" />
<osm-tag key="tourism" value="alpine_hut" zoom-appear="14" />
<osm-tag key="historic" value="ruins" zoom-appear="15" />

Themes could then be created accordingly, or existing themes could be modified as shown below. (E.g. "[Theme] Hiking" viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1871)

The subject was already brought up at the mapsforge forum (Issue 289: Display more information on low zoom level in the mountains; http://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/issues/detail?id=289). But there was literally not much achieved, and I believe it would be good to consider these points in newly created maps and in updated maps. What do you think?

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<rule e="node" k="*" v="*">
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<rule e="node" k="amenity" v="bus_station" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="amenity" v="place_of_worship" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="amenity" v="restaurant" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="highway" v="bus_stop" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="historic" v="*">
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<rule e="node" k="*" v="*" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="railway" v="halt|tram_stop" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="shop" v="supermarket|organic" zoom-min="15">
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</rule>
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<rule e="node" k="tourism" v="alpine_hut" zoom-min="14">
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</rule>
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</rule>