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Jim wrote:
> Is there a good source of POIs for Northern Ireland and Eire please? Usual
> source www.pocketgpsworld.com is sparse or non-existent. Particularly
> looking for DIY (B&Q etc.), Electrical Stores (Comet, Currys, Currys Digital
> etc.), Motoring (Halfords etc) and Supermarkets.
>
> Any ideas please?

Sorry, not a direct answer. I think it is in general that there are not
a lot of good POIs available. I have been thinking of making a script
that would turn an adresslist (in e.g. csv) into a POI.

The problem I have is that I have not enough time. Also I do not have a
real good clue how the ov2 files are made:

For the bash users out there, It should not be too hard if they use
latitude and longitude. Mmm. Must ibnvestigate. I will keep you all
posted if I find something.

Again, not a solution to the problem, but if you can get adres lists
from sites, it could be usefull because you can easily make your own.

houghi
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>>>> Run the following from the bashprompt if you have the kernel sources
for I in `find /usr/src/linux/ -name *.c`; \
do A=`grep -i -A 1 -B 1 **** $I`;if [ "$A" != "" ]; \
then printf "$I \n$A \n\n"; fi ;done|less

houghi wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.satellite.gps.tomtom.]
> Jim wrote:
>> Is there a good source of POIs for Northern Ireland and Eire please?
>> Usual source www.pocketgpsworld.com is sparse or non-existent.
>> Particularly looking for DIY (B&Q etc.), Electrical Stores (Comet,
>> Currys, Currys Digital etc.), Motoring (Halfords etc) and
>> Supermarkets.
>>
>> Any ideas please?
>
> Sorry, not a direct answer. I think it is in general that there are
> not a lot of good POIs available. I have been thinking of making a
> script that would turn an adresslist (in e.g. csv) into a POI.
>
> The problem I have is that I have not enough time. Also I do not have
> a real good clue how the ov2 files are made:
>
> For the bash users out there, It should not be too hard if they use
> latitude and longitude. Mmm. Must ibnvestigate. I will keep you all
> posted if I find something.
>
> Again, not a solution to the problem, but if you can get adres lists
> from sites, it could be usefull because you can easily make your own.

It isnt that hard to turn the maps.google hit list into POIs.

You dont have to worry about the format of the file, there
are utes from tomtom that will turn text files into them.

> houghi
>>>>> Run the following from the bashprompt if you have the kernel
>>>>> sources
> for I in `find /usr/src/linux/ -name *.c`; \
> do A=`grep -i -A 1 -B 1 **** $I`;if [ "$A" != "" ]; \
> then printf "$I \n$A \n\n"; fi ;done|less

Rod Speed wrote:
> You dont have to worry about the format of the file, there
> are utes from tomtom that will turn text files into them.

Not for Linux. For that I am looking at GPSBabel.

houghi
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houghi wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:

>> You dont have to worry about the format of the file, there
>> are utes from tomtom that will turn text files into them.

> Not for Linux.

Yes for Linux, just run them in a win emulator.

> For that I am looking at GPSBabel.

Rod Speed wrote:
>> Not for Linux.
>
> Yes for Linux, just run them in a win emulator.

So not for Linux. I am not going to run an emulator, nor am I going to
use wine.

houghi
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houghi wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>>> Not for Linux.
>>
>> Yes for Linux, just run them in a win emulator.

> So not for Linux.

Yes for Linux.

> I am not going to run an emulator, nor am I going to use wine.

Your problem.

Rod Speed wrote:
> Yes for Linux.

No, not for Linux. For Windows and possibly runnable with WINE.

>> I am not going to run an emulator, nor am I going to use wine.
>
> Your problem.

Not a problem either. Just a fact.

houghi
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