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njwc Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 04, 2006 Posts: 14
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject: Best place to obtain POI files ? |
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I've been hunting around a few websites which supply POI files and I'm confused as to where the best place to get them from is
I decided to use Tesco's as a yardstick, and found that there are large differences between the POI files held on each site, e,g
pocketgpsworld.com - 312 entries
poihandler.com - 724 entries (although some of them seem to be duplicates, e.g Axminster)
poiplace.oabsoftware.nl - 430 entries (no names though, so not easy to check for duplicates)
poidownload.co.uk - 127 entries
Obviously more may not necessarily be better, and I'd rather have quality over quantity, but you can see why I'm a bit confused.
So, where do people go to get their POIs from ? |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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the nimber listed will be the poi catagories available
have you tried poi handler and poi place _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
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njwc Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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alix776 wrote: | the nimber listed will be the poi catagories available
have you tried poi handler and poi place | I probably didnt make it clear enough in my original post , but the numbers I've quoted are the number of entries in each ov2 file - I've downloaded them and loaded them into Excel.
I'm puzzled by the big variations between the ov2 files from the various sources |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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the poi files are compiled from people putting together there own lists of pois and alowing them to be used by other freely so for example a jeep dealer in the uk by one person aand the same one by another could have different numbers of entries they only may have putt the jeep dealers in areas were they visit on a regular basis. this would explain the differn ce in different files from different sites _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
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