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AndyC_65
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 Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: Writing POI files - is there an idiots guide? |
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Fairly new to the forum - have been absorbing all the info - great stuff - thanks to all for making owning an i3 a better experience.
Quick (?) question. I'm a member of English Heritage and want to have their locations as a POI on my i3.
Is this something I can write myself as an excel csv file? DO I need post codes or long lat to write the file?? Is there an idiots guide - or better still a utility for writing them?
Did a search - but found everything on POI's except the answer.
Thanks in anticipation.
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zogman
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| Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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why dont you just download the english heritage poi's onto the i3..(see MaFt's site) ...
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MaFt
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: |
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cheers, ya beat me to it!
also on the site is a guide on how to make your own poi files (under info/hot to)
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AndyC_65
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the replies....
Now I feel a fool....I already had them downloaded to my i3....BUT...couldn't find Bolsover castle in there at all - where should I be looking?
Same question on making POI files remains should I wish to make my own - any guides out there?
Many thanks.
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MaFt
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| AndyC_65 wrote: | | couldn't find Bolsover castle in there at all - where should I be looking? |
where to / food hotels n more / custom points / english heritage /
then search for 'bolsover'
or look in the castles poi in the custom points. it only shows the nearest 50 or so in the list unless you actually start to input some text then it will filter them for whatever you put in.
| AndyC_65 wrote: | | Same question on making POI files remains should I wish to make my own - any guides out there? |
| MaFt wrote: | | also on the site is a guide on how to make your own poi files (under info/how to) |
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AndyC_65
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:22 am Post subject: |
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MaFt - thanks for the reply (and the POIs!), looks like I made a cock-up when I added the speed camera's - no English Heritage there - will overwrite with everything.
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Anita
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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I can't find Bolsover Castle under either Castles or English Heritage 
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MaFt
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| Anita wrote: | | I can't find Bolsover Castle under either Castles or English Heritage |
-1.2959 53.2246 Castle Bolsover
line 23 in 'castles.csv'
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: |
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So it is! Sorry MaFt 
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| Talking about Castles, are any of them in the right place. I checked the position of two I know about (Dunstanburgh and Tynemouth) and they appear to be way off. Neither one is shown on the coast and I think Tynemouth appears to be in a residential street IIRC. |
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MaFt
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| slartibartfast wrote: | | Talking about Castles, are any of them in the right place. I checked the position of two I know about (Dunstanburgh and Tynemouth) and they appear to be way off. Neither one is shown on the coast and I think Tynemouth appears to be in a residential street IIRC. |
erm... anyone else want to either confirm or deny this? i presume that the co-ords generally take you to the car park rather than to the actual castle itself... i'll check the 1 near me...
...which appears to be spot on - skipton castle.
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Different POI file but Cotswold Wildlife Park in the Zoos CSV is actually a riding school in a lane around the back of the park, the visitor entrance is about a good .75 mile away by road. SWMBO saw this as yet another reason to deride the i3 as a useless gadget. 
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| bumpkin wrote: | | Different POI file but Cotswold Wildlife Park in the Zoos CSV is actually a riding school in a lane around the back of the park, the visitor entrance is about a good .75 mile away by road. SWMBO saw this as yet another reason to deride the i3 as a useless gadget. |
can you email me the correct lat/lon and i'll get it changed next update: mail@MaFt.co.uk |
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| MaFt wrote: | | can you email me the correct lat/lon and i'll get it changed next update: mail@MaFt.co.uk |
Held down the scroll wheel on departure, computa says 51.77565 N / 1.64766 W
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