Rest stops in europe

[shrubies]

Hi All

My wife and I are will be taken our Newborn baby of about 3 months to Germany in July. We will need to stop every 2 to 3 hour and I wanted to know where I could get a POI of all the rest stop of Europe, so I can setup a warn as we approach the rest stop.

many thank

Shrubies

[Andy_P]

To be honest, I doubt if you will find one single file, so you'll have to do some digging on the internet to find them for the various countries. None of them are likely to have *all* of the sites either....
This site has a complete list of the UK motorway services (look under Transport on the 'Free POIs' page), but where you look for others probably depends on your definition of a "rest stop".

Other places to look could include:
http://www.tomtom.com/support/ce/support/nav_poi01.php (and in TomTom Home too)
http://www.poihandler.com/index.html
http://www.poidownload.co.uk/poi/index.php
http://poiplace.oabsoftware.nl/index.php?MainURL=POIregister3.php (need to register)
http://www.poisoft.co.uk/downloads.htm
http://www.tomtomfree.com/

...but you may be just as lucky just doing a few Google searches.


Once you've downloaded some files, you can then combine them if you wish, with POI Edit.

[mpwilson99]

Im currently doing a similar thing like you, but going to Spain and currently have been looking up rest stops along the way.

You dont mention if you use a tomtom? - but if you do there should be a POI collection of Rest Area.
These tend to have everything, BUT if you look on google earth, it soon becomes clear which are just a stop area, and dont actually have any or limited facilities.

If you try this site here..
http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/affichaireE.php?Pays=ALLEMAGNE
It gives you more of what we would call a service station.

In the main file downloaded here..
http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/recherche.php#synchro

look for the Aires collection in the zip, these should be of better standed and have more facilites. At least, this is what ive found from looking up these on google earth. - Had i of used the Rest Area POI, think i would have been very disappointed if not checked first!

To see whats on offer for your route, Navigate To your destination, then do a Travel Via POI Aries, and you will see whats on route.
Or have them shown under the Browse Map.

Hope that helps

MPW
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[shrubies]

thanks all

shrubies

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