POIs for all UK business types

andrewace · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 5

Hello all

I have started to develop a new website at http://www.poidownload.co.uk which can generate POI lists for any UK business type.

Eg. if you want Taxi companies, Cafes, Car Washes, absolutely anything, you can go on and create a POI file automatically from published company information.

The site is in its infancy and I am looking for feedback on its usefulness... It's a bit slow to generate the lists initially but please be patient. Once a few more people have used it the speed will improve since the POIs get cached on the server.

I would be interested in your comments...

Best regards

Andrew Ace
www.poidownload.co.uk

BoPeep · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject:

Hi Andrew,

It looks like a very useful website! Thumbs Up

I must admit I didn't wait for the POI to load as I chose a business which I don't think had been selected before, so the process looked like it would take some time.

I agree though, once people start using it and all of the file types are used at least once, it should prove very useful for anyone looking to download a POI that isn't already available on the Pocket GPS World website.

Regards,

Bo Peep.
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phily · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject:

Andrew,

Great site have used it twice with no problems on download.

Have recommended the site on another thread.
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fingery · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 15, 2004 Posts: 29

Looks like a great idea 8)

Just downloading a few to try it out :D

Oldie · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject:

I am very impressed :D Having chosen a topic, Museums, the ASC file was generated very quickly. On inspection I found that there were 954 entries and I could spot many of the museums that are local to me as well as The Natural History Museum etc. I still have to create a corresponding OV2 file and look at them on a map.

Richard

Oldie

streetbum · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 28

Awesome!!

andrewace you have made my day Smile

thankyou.

Pete.

andrewace · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 5

Thanks all for your great feedback! :D

Am currently working hard to speed it all up dramatically - running a script to generate all the POI lists (from 2000+ categories!!) so that you won't have to wait around all day for it - it's taking its time though!

Oldie, your idea is good, I will try to incorproate a postcode checker to give the option of only getting POIs within a certain distance.

Any other feedback or ideas for it?

Cheers
Andrew

www.poidownload.co.uk

JoeFruitBat · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

Hi Andrew,

Very glad to see more POIs pop up and even more glad to see them for free Laughing

Please don't take this the wrong way as I don't wish to offend you and the obvious hard work you are doing.
The database or server or whatever is just far to slow m8. I know you say it's big but you are not talking about big data. If you would like some help with this (it's my living) I would be only to please to offer some.
I can alos host an SQL server for you if it's a hosting issue obviously at no charge.
I deal with some very large databases holding millions of records and some of the records are not small I'm sure improvements could be made

Regards

andrewace · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 5

Agreed JoeFruitBat. The slowness isn't on the poi download server itself but an external server which needs to be trawled to generate a new poi list.

The script I'm running now is saving the data on the local database, which is obviously much faster. You will find that any categories up to the letter 'M' are very fast... and all should be this quick within the next couple of days.

Cheers,
Andrew
www.poidownload.co.uk

GGMan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 6

Hi, is there any way of converting it to csv for Navman V3. I tried but get this error "No POI's found in input file". What does this mean? I also managed to get it tio reconise it now but its to big PPC. Ant ideas on how to put it onto SD card and that ST v3 will reconise it? Many Thanks.

uffe73 · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

Tim Buxton · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

A better way forward would be for Navman to embrace the existing Autoroute pushpin .csv standard and make their POI Editor either use or ignore the first line in .csv files.
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uffe73 · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

I went to the POI Download UK website, for the first time in a month or so. I noticed that when you hit the "Generate POIs" button, you’re now taken to a secure PayPal site and asked to make a donation.

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