shell poi's

smstextaddict · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: shell poi's

im not the only one to notice this, after a recent camping trip various other members had sat navs with shell poi's on it. i had already checked the shell site for a place to fill up near the lakes and found penrith all others within 15miles of keswick did not exist and were actually a smaller company that ive not heard of before (not much use on red). M6 back wasnt much better telling us that various service stations were shell when in fact BP so i gave up pulling into them as i and others on the trip only wanted vpower for our cars.

253 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject:

I've noticed this as well with other stations, they do change hands a lot.
A number of Total stations are now Q8 or Murco. There's a station down by my parents has changed 'owners' about 3 times in 4 years - no idea what it is now, but it is one of the smaller independents.

The original POI may have been submitted from the Shell data base, it is up to users of the POIs to update them whenever possible to help keep them up to date.
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Daggers · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:

Do you mean th one on Bridge Road in Penrith? If so, can you help us all by updating the database using the POI submissions page? Either delete the Shell station or (preferably) amend it to the correct distributor.

DennisN · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: shell poi's

smstextaddict · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

the one in penrith was the only one that was correct up that way. i havent submitted any of them as i didnt expect to have to go round wasting fuel trying to find one that was actually there, found it more a hinderance than help and thankfully shell's website have a list of actual stations so i will print that off next time i go travelling.

The reason i use Shell is my car only takes 98Ron or above limiting me to a few different suppliers and owners of similar cars have all recommended vpower to all the others.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:02 am Post subject:

smstextaddict · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

Daggers · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

But we still don't know which ones were incorrect.

I downloaded the POI file from Shell's own site a few months back. I very quickly switched back to the PGPSW version!

DennisN · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject:

smstextaddict · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:58 am Post subject:

sorry dennis but whats that got to do with shell poi's? You no doubt dont talk to your other mods because if you did you will find i still DO report missing locations speak to MaFt and the other mod i dealt with. ive reported many that are local to me that were missing (would you like the camera numbers?) as well as some incorrect speeds that your database was showing (ill forward the emails if you like to you).

I think one of the towns was ambleside, but as i wasnt local to the area i wasnt too sure of the name other than it was south of keswick. then coming back down the M6 from the lakes we came across a number of motorway sites that the poi's indicated as shell but was not. So instead of picking arguements why not work with people? im starting to find it a waste of time trying to report things when this is the kind of response i get from someone who "SHOULD BE SETTING AN EXAMPLE". like i said least i ammaking an effort to report it many people dont and hope someone else can be bothered.

Next time i am up that way i will take time to stop and write down all grid references for you and take photos. Wink

smstextaddict · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:10 am Post subject:

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Oldboy · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

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