Making GPS POI

Rails
1

Hi

I would like to make dynamic POI files for GPS software such tomtom

Have you ever heard about a “ror solution” to do that?

thanks
jef

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On Jan 25, 2009, at 1:40 PM, jef wrote:

Hi

I would like to make dynamic POI files for GPS software such tomtom

Have you ever heard about a “ror solution” to do that?

thanks
jef

Well, not Rails, but just Ruby. I threw this together for my Garmin
last year:

poi.rb takes a file of addresses, geocodes them, and creates a .csv file

poimerge.rb takes two POI .csv files and tries to identify duplicates
and likely duplicates

You might want to check out http://www.poi-factory.com/ for a lot of
general POI and GPSr resources.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

3

My problem is to make ov2 file. (tomtom file format). it’s a binary
file.

Any idea to do that in ruby?

thanks

4

Either figure out the format and just write it out, or visit
TomTom OV2 | How do I convert POI files to TomTom OV2 format? | POI Factory
and get a tool that will do the csv=>ov2 conversion and just write out
the csv with ruby (and FasterCSV)

-Rob

On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:46 AM, jef wrote:

You might want to check outhttp://www.poi-factory.com/for a lot of
general POI and GPSr resources.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]
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