8000 POIs on a spreadsheet but how do I get them on my 720?

Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

Hi

I have a spreadsheet with 8000 London POI on it.
It shows name, address, postcode, and type (of POI.

Is there anyway of putting them on to TT as a POI even it means bundlling
them all into one category.

I was hoping there was some sort of cut and paste way of doing it!

PS Im using a MAC

Cheers Confused

Darren · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

You're going to have to convert the addresses into Lat/Lon before you can do anything with them?
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Oldboy · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

The OV2 format that is normally used requires 3 fields for each location.

Longitude,Latitude,"Name Text"

I only know of Windows programs that do the conversion, of which I would use the XLS Converter from our very own Oldie.
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Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

Hi

The XLS Converter didnt work on my MAC.

Any other suggestions?

Cheers

Darren · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

The .xls converter still requires your data has Lat/Lon information before it can work.

Until you have that, there is no simple conversion utility that will read an address and convert to Lat/Lon or a standard POI format.
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Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

OK

Cheers

Daggers · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

If you can import the data into a copy of MS AutoRoute, it can then be exported into a format that can be read by POIEdit (& possibly XLS Converter). This will use the postcodes to create latitude/longitude information, so won't be absolutely precise, but will get most of them on the correct street, within 100 yards or so of the correct location.

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

Unfortunately AutoRoute 2007, the latest version, doesn't handle the Channel Isles Postcodes. Sad

It doesn't like some of the addresses much either.
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CliveBrown · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 24, 2006 Posts: 21

Hi
Just been using the xls convereter, it's brilliant, so thanks to Oldboy for the link and thanks to Oldie for making the converter available. I had around 9000 poi's which were sorted in seconds

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