Accident Blackspot poi anyone want??

alFR · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 27

How big's the file? I could host it if it's not too big....

dice · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject:

alFR · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 27

No problem, but I'll not be able to put it up for a couple of weeks (we have a really busy couple of weeks coming up at work with a lot of out-of-office time & I'll be away from computer access a lot).

I'll PM you again nearer the time and give you my mail, you can send it over & I'll put it up.

dice · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject:

Sounds good ok then.

dice · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: Uploaded accident blackspot poi

Ok guys Karl has been good enough to upload this as a winrar file so no need to pm me anymore Wink

http://www.taktmobiles.co.uk/bspots.rar

weelogic · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:32 am Post subject:

Sorry for the daft question but how do you convert the rar file to the ov2/bmp files needed for TT?

weelogic · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:54 am Post subject:

Check that - downloaded WinRAR and all is well. Thanks to the creator of the POI file - great work and a valuable addition to the sat-nav community.

dice · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

stevei · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

Dice

Many thanks. I am all for making driving safer. Will this be updated in the future, if so will you let us know through this forum.

Kind Regards
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dice · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

xda · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject:

dice · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject:

DerekG · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 30

The data contained in Dice's download is curiously similar to that offered from http://www.poihandler.com/index.asp (who are a specialist site catering for POI downloads - most of them free). For those poeple who requested copies of Dice's file, you might like to know that registration at POIhandler is free http://www.poihandler.com/register1.asp. Once registered, you can then visit the free POIhandler download page at http://www.poihandler.com/poi_download.asp and if you enter the following information . . .

FileType: TomTom OV2 FileFormat
Country: United Kingdom
MainGroup: Traffic
SubGroup: Accident Black Spots

. . . you should then get an up-to-date set of POIs. If, like me, you care to compare the contents of this file with the one originally supplied by Dice, then you may draw the same suspicious conclusions. You might also like to observe the caveat on POIhandler's download page, namely "Please note, all data is Copyright © 2003-2005 by POIHandler"

I do not visit this PocketGPS forum as freguently as some folks, but I can't believe how much posting has gone on for a bootleg POI database. All that was needed was a google search for "Accident Black Spot POI" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=accident+black+spot+POI&btnG=Search, and POIhandler comes up as the first hit. I say the first hit, actually this series of postings are now the first hit, which is ridiculous because the legitimate download from POIhandler has now beed toppled from its topmost ranking.

Can I suggest the folks who have posted this on thread, take the time to look at POIhandler's website. They have a lot of good things and a collection of links to software for "all things POI". Have fun.

dice · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

Read though the thread I have told everyone none of this is my work ,christ don't be so anal Rolling Eyes

If its poihandlers great go take a look at their website.... Smile

weelogic · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:

Sorry, DerekG, but I am with dice on this one. He never once presented the file as his own work and has more than once stated that it is not. All he, and others, are trying to do is assist in bringing a valuable POI file to the awareness of a wider community. If POIhandler were up in arms, this thread has been running for some weeks without comment from them or PocketGPS mods.

It has been suggested in the posts that PocketGPS incorporate the blackspots file within their main database - possibly its existence on POIhandler is why they did not respond, but we are actively trying to bring a key safety feature to the wider audience.

This is not about condoning breach of copyright, but breaching copyright, to the best of my knowledge, never cost lives. Accident blackspots do, and I would rather know where they were than who owned the dataset of their POI location.

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