Show POI in colors and not only in orange

[jf-simon]

Per default, the POIs are shown in different colors, this is nice:

but if i add manually per overlay POI they are all in orange.

It would be nice, if there where an option to show them in orange OR in colors like in default view.

Thanks

Simon

[sonora]

But then how would you distinguish between exactly those POI which fulfil your search filter and just any odd POI which happens to be displayed as per the map style rendering default?

[ceever]

Oppose - I think this request is not meaningful.

A search relates to exactly one specific parameter (or more), but the orangeness of POIs is simply related to the search. For everything else there is the normal view which has different colours.

Also, I imagine the map will become too confusing if now also the search distinguishes colours.

[scaidermern]

Maybe OsmAnd could use the original POI symbols but display them slightly larger and with an orange casing? Not sure if this creates enough visual distinction between regular POIs and search results.

[apertureless]

You could make it as an option.
I use osmand mostly for hiking. But managing the POIs is really awful. Most of the time I have to use the "nearbly pois" feature which will get crowded easily if I zoom out a bit. And because all POIs are orange it is really hard to find what you're looking for.

In longer distance hikes I mostly care about: shelters / huts, camping ground and water sources. But there seems to be no proper way to just display those, especially because "water sources" would include multiple POI types. Thats why I am using the near by pois feature (which would be better if it would be near the track I use and not zoom, but ok).

I know it is just one of many use cases you try to cover

[osmonoid]

[...] Oppose [...] A search relates to exactly one specific parameter (or more) [...] For everything else there is the normal view which has different colours [...]

Oppose to your opposition 😉 explanation follows:

Personally, I completely disabled the default icon overlay (what you referred as normal view) because it is, due to its nature a subset of the maps features selected by the algorithm as an educated guess of what could be relevant for a user for the current map profile. I.e. parking lots make much more sense when in car mode than in pedestrian mode.
But since it is only a guess, it distracts me more than it helps, as I am not constantly searching for parking lots, doctors, shops and restaurants at the same time when looking at the map!

When I want to have a POI overlay it is an explicit decision (and act) to do so.

Your statement "exactly one specific parameter" is not entirely true:
If you search for a name (could be a shop, restaurant, etc.) then this name is not necessarily unique. Sticking to the example (screenshot) above, the hairdresser could have the same name as the cafe or the restaurant but all of those POIs would be orange with all the other POI-type-specific colors not being used at all.

My suggestion for the described situation is the following:
If option Menu > Configure map > Map rendering > Hide > POI icons + POI labels is disabled, then colorize the search result icons according to their corresponding default color (as they look like when default POI icons are not disabled).