“Right Turn Onto Main Street” is exactly what i’m trying to achieve, but i wanna add the ref to the name too. i haven’t checked yet if the gps is able to pull names from the non-routing layer. i actually doubt it, because i have (invisible) bus and tram lines along the roads, and their names never turn up while routing.

But back to the problem: i found a way around it. using

name=* { set name=‘${name} (${ref})’ }

as 1st line of the lines file works. this names a lot of lines i don’t actually need, but much better than having a lot of pois i don’t want

@csdf: does your routing layer really have no way names? mkgmap automaticly uses the name tag, the {name} in the lines file is only needed if you wanna rewrite the name (like i do - adding the ref)