Wherever there's more than one poi, I don't see the designated poi icons but three blue balloons just like in the pic. I tried o disable it using the following line in sys.txt but didn't work.

[poi]
use_multi_poi_icon=0

What can I do disable it so that I can see the brand poi icons for them?
Thanks!

Some people report that this works:

[poi]
group_poi_icons=0

I cannot confirm this, but please report back if it does work.

Thanks! I tried it but the result is still the same.

OK, one other thing to consider (I have tried this and it seems to work in SOME cases) is that, usually a 'brand' POI is 32x32 pixels in size, and no two can occupy the same space at the same time. From a distance, when two or more are in close proximity, they do, and slowly separate as the horizon gets closer so that there is enough room to display them. Using the diMka skin, I have in a few cases adjusted the specific view distance for specific POI icons so that they appear one before the other. For instance, set one at 5 KM, one at 1 KM, and so on so that they don't all overlap at the same time. This causes a bit of a 'blink in and out' effect, but it reduces the Blue Balloon incidents.

Thanks but that didn't work either! I'm still working on that & if I succeed, I'll post it here.