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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject: Rest stops in europe
Hi All
My wife and I are will be taken our Newborn baby of about 3 months to Germany in July. We will need to stop every 2 to 3 hour and I wanted to know where I could get a POI of all the rest stop of Europe, so I can setup a warn as we approach the rest stop.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:
To be honest, I doubt if you will find one single file, so you'll have to do some digging on the internet to find them for the various countries. None of them are likely to have *all* of the sites either....
This site has a complete list of the UK motorway services (look under Transport on the 'Free POIs' page), but where you look for others probably depends on your definition of a "rest stop".
Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 462 Location: Hickstead, Sussex
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:
Im currently doing a similar thing like you, but going to Spain and currently have been looking up rest stops along the way.
You dont mention if you use a tomtom? - but if you do there should be a POI collection of Rest Area.
These tend to have everything, BUT if you look on google earth, it soon becomes clear which are just a stop area, and dont actually have any or limited facilities.
look for the Aires collection in the zip, these should be of better standed and have more facilites. At least, this is what ive found from looking up these on google earth. - Had i of used the Rest Area POI, think i would have been very disappointed if not checked first!
To see whats on offer for your route, Navigate To your destination, then do a Travel Via POI Aries, and you will see whats on route.
Or have them shown under the Browse Map.
Hope that helps
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