New POI category

young-goat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:06 am Post subject: New POI category

I have a list of shops that I want to make a POI category from. How do I do it, what software do I need ?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place but as it's for my TT GO 500 I thought it might be right to put it here

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:33 am Post subject:

The easiest way depends on how many there are and what location details you have for them...

You can do it all on the Go itself if you're prepared to put them all in yourself one by one.
Just got to Change preferences / Manage POIs / Add POI category , then give it a name.

Now from the "Browse map" screen, go "Find" and use all the normal ways of finding a place - Address, postcode, latitude and longitude, or just scrolling about.
Make sure the blue cursor is where you want it, then tap the cursor button at the bottom and select "Add as POI". Select your new category from the list and you're done.
Repeat as necessary! Very Happy

If you want to do it on the PC instead (but again one-by one) there are programs like "Tyre" and "POI Edit".

If you have a list of postcodes, there was at least one program which would convert it to a POI file, but my bookmark link is dead now.
Postcodes also tend to cover much too large an area to be very accurate anyway and produce poor POI files (a lot of the ones you find on the web are like this).

young-goat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:16 am Post subject:

I have a list, copied from a website, saved in .txt format I renamed it .ov2 but that didn't load into POI edit
Here is one of the addresses
Lewisham Food Centre (Basak Supermarket), 213 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LY - 020 8318 1322
how do I load it into POI edit

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:38 am Post subject:

young-goat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:47 am Post subject:

They are 24 Hour Off Licences in London
http://www.24houralcohol.co.uk/

I work nights and I like to be able to buy a couple of beers on my way home. My route home is not always the same so I want to be able to look up the nearest one that is on route

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:05 am Post subject:

Hmmm.
A lot of the boroughs on that site only have 3 or 4 addresses listed (although places like Brent and Enfield have a dozen or more each and Lambeth has 73!).

I reckon it would take a two or three day slog to enter the addresses or postcodes into the TT one by one, and you could then offer the results to PocketGPSWorld to add to their community POIs. Smile

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:16 am Post subject:

More research...
(I just did a search for "postcode" in the POI forum section)
If you try it, you'll get 73 results, a lot of which are saying much the same thing.
for example:

young-goat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:45 am Post subject:

BigPerk · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:11 am Post subject:

I take it young-goat that you have already asked 24houralcohol if they also have the info in a satnav-compatible format?
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dhn · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject:

Don't suppose a program such as this helps at all??
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Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:22 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject:

dhn · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject:

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Koo! I like that. Thanks for the link David. Ali.
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Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:37 pm Post subject:

Looks good! Could be just what young goat needs?

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