POI via addy (tryying to make wether spoons pack)

JME · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 1

i hav had a brief look around this site for ways to make my own POI pack from the pc, But so far i hav only found ways of doing it with the GPS code, I hav a long list of wether spoons pubs addys in a leaflet i got. I would like to put them into POI format without going all over GB.
Thanks in advance for any help.

BoPeep · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject:

Hi JME,

If you have the postcode you can use a website such as Streetmap to convert this data into longitude and latitude coordinates which you can then transfer into a .ov2 file using a POI converter program such as WinOV2.

See my Sticky guide to creating your own POI in the POI-Sync forum if you are still unsure.

Regards,

Bo Peep.
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ChrisDev · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 33

Is there any faster way of converting lots (I mean thousands) of postcodes into Lat/Long co-ords than using streetmap or something similar?

I'm thinking some kind of web script using xml etc

I'm contemplating updating my Wireless Hotspot POI but I used a postcode database previously and I don't think that is available any more...

It's a long old job if I have to input every postcode into streetmap!

Chris

Tim Buxton · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

You could download the Wetherspoons file from here and then convert it to whatever format you need using Oldie's POIConverter.
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ChrisDev · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 33

ChrisDev · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 33

BoPeep · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Tim was replying to the first post in this thread by JME. ;-)

Regards,

Bo Peep.
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Tim Buxton · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

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