BT Telephone exchanges POI's

ianj1234 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 08, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi,

I was woundering if anyone has a POI list of all the BT telephone exchanges in the country? I've seen people with them on TOMOM's but i'm not sure if that is something that is already installed when it comes out of the box or something that is added after.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject:

If you work for BT the file might be made available from your employer, if not then I am not too sure such a POI file would be easily obtained from third party sources - Mike

Darren · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:43 am Post subject:

It's also not something we would be happy to collate. For security reasons a publicly held POI of telephone exchanges could be a bad idea.
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tomo1340 · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

A POI does exist, not only for tomtom but for other units and you can download it from the BT intranet if you are employed by BT, there has been a POI made available from somewhere that I have been sent but it isn't very accurate and actually has some exchanges mapped that don't exist not to mention some slight inaccuracies. I made my own as and when I visited sites but I guess this one can be used as a guideline. Interestingly the graphic shows up as a red square and not the actual correct icon to on the one that is floated about.
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Privateer · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:29 am Post subject:

Hi tomo1340,

tomo1340 · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:

I wasn't that fussed but I will give it a try tonight and see if I can utilize the icon for my own poi file. I've made them myself before, if I recall there was a little utility available that did all the work for you.

Edit: I have just re downloaded the files from the intranet and the icon works fine with no adjustment so I just renamed the bitmap to my own poi and over wrote it.
Looking on the site there is a poi set for tomtom, navman, garmin and magellan 3100. it doesn't say you can't share the poi files external to BT however there is a BT policy of keeping the information on their internal websites secure and rightly so. if any BT employee wants a copy then I would be happy to direct them to the intranet website where they are hosted.

Interestingly I don't find the file extremely accurate, I would imagine its compiled from a list of post codes. Good enough as a guide only but it would be advisable to correct them upon visiting or create a new set of PoIs as I did.
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qclife · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 20, 2013 Posts: 1

I see this topic is now quite old so has anyone got a reliable POI file for the TomTom start 25 ?
I work as a courier and we do quite a lot of work for BT and end up in all kinds of locations looking for BT exchange and pup sites and some of them are real hard to finde sometimes Sad

and BT are not the most co operative company in the world LoL.
I know that they have poi's for most of their sites but I can seem to get any access to it myself Sad

so if anyone does have the file handy any chance of pointing me in the right direction?
TIA

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject:

In today's rather dangerous (or paranoid) world, I suspect the locations of important national infrastructure like telephone exchanges is probably rather sensitive information!

If you deal with BT regularily, you're probably in a better position to source them than the rest of us! Laughing

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paulne99 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 26, 2014 Posts: 1

IF YOU WORK FOR BT GO ONTO INFORME AND LOOK FOR EXCHANGE FINDER IN A-Z THEN END TAB IS DOWNLOAD EXCHANGE POI FOR TOM TOM

M8TJT · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:23 pm Post subject:

Hi Paul.
Apart from the last three posts, this thread was mainly posted to in 2008 Shocked

And please stop shouting.

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