POI Databases

Bazzer · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:03 pm Post subject: POI Databases

Driving home late on Saturday night from Manchester, my petrol warning light came on, and was shocked 8O that my trip meter said I only had 11 miles left in the tank.

No problems, I thought. I'll use TT5 to find the nearest petrol station. Great, the nearest was only 1.5 miles away. Set it to navigate there, only to end up in an industrial estate with no petrol station there.

Oh well, let's try the next one. Now I was navigating through Didsbury's backstreets at 1am arriving at the 'destination', but again with no petrol station in sight. What's going on ? Only 8 miles left in the tank. Starting to panic now.

Luckily, I got myself onto one of the main routes into Manchester and followed that until I found a petrol station. Phew, what a relief.

Obviously, I'm not too impressed with the accuracy of the database of petrol stations in TT5.

OK, there are others available, and I've installed the one from this site. But having looked at the local petrol stations, one is in the wrong place, and 3 other local ones (2 x Shell & 1 Sainsburys) are not shown at all.

I've also downloaded the one from poidownload.co.uk after following a link from Ray Flanagan's site. But this one again has many local stations missing.

This does not inspire me with confidence to find much needed petrol stations in unfamiliar areas should the need arise again.

Does anyone know of any accurate poi databases from other sources.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Baz Confused

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MikeyF · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: POI's

Have you tried poihandler.com - There are a few individual ones there so You'll either have to put up with this or do a bit of file editing.

Mikey

MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject:

Aside from the camera database on this site. Every set of POI's I've used are worthless. They either have massively incorrect data or just miss out the majority of what they should include.

Bazzer · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:

I've just installed the poihandler database. On first looks, it appears very comprehensive, detailing petrol stations by brand. However, when I check the local petrol stations, it appears to suffer from the same inaccuracies and omissions.

I think we need PGPSW to administer this alongside the Safety Cameras, with users adding and amending as they find them. I'm sure Oldboy has the time. Shouldn't take too long Wink

Baz
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mikealder · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

Baz, I think Richard has far too much to do already with the excellent camera database and its upkeep to wory about fuel stops - I for one would not like an upto date fuel stop POI Database at the possible cost of degredation of the cameras - keeping the tank topped off before attempting a trip usually works for me - Not all fuel stops are 24HR so that alone presents a problem - Mike

shrubies · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 34

If some how we could get Shell, Sainburys and so on to give us the infomation, then we could put it into a POI file and make it an offical POI for that type.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject:

Bazzer · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

Hi Mike

I did put a Wink

at the end of the suggestion, meaning it was tongue-in-cheek.

My problem occurred when was travelling to Manchester on Saturday evening to visit a friend. About 4 miles before I reached my destination my fuel warning light came on, and this usually means that I've got 50 miles left in the tank, so I was not unduly worried.

However, later that night when it was time to return home and I started the car, the trip meter said that I only had 11 miles left. This surprised me as I should have been able to get most of the way home on what I had left (although I wouldn't have risked it).

This meant that I had to find a petrol station urgently, and when TT5 failed to help in this respect, I became a bit anxious, as I didn't want to run out of fuel in the middle of Moss Side at 1 in the morning.

I'm sure that an accurate and regularly updated petrol station database would be useful but not practical in terms of workload involved to maintain it. Oh well, we can dream... Laughing

Baz
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Oldboy · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject:

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