Coffee POI for GPS

[wvb]

as GPS systems are getting cheaper and the amount of owners is constantly increasing I was wondering if it would be a good idea to collect all good places concerning coffee and put them into a POI (Point Of Interest).
GPS systems now offer routing by car, bike and on foot..

Info needed would be:

Category:
Name:
Street:
Number:
Postalcode:
City:
Country:
Phone:
Rating (1-5):
GPS position checked (Y-N):

this info could then be entered in a program and saved as a POI file for all sorts of devices (TomTom, Garmin, ...)

I could start a topic for it and people can reply with places they want to add.
The latest POI(s) will always be in the first post and updated when needed, update info (what was added) will also be in the first post.
I wouldn't mind keeping it up to date and creating the new POI's

This is just an idea,
please share your thoughts

cheers,
Wietse.

[CakeBoy]

Sounds good to me Wietse. With the holiday season looming, people will be looking for half decent places wherever they are going, and of course it is always handy to have easy directions even to local coffee outlets.

[Sunnyfield]

Very interesting. I am not familiar with it. How would I be able to access or download these POIs? (Assuming I have a GPS enabled PDA.)

[wvb]

How would I be able to access or download these POIs?

The POI's will be attached here to the first post (if allowed offcourse), they will be mostly less than 100KB in size.
They will be put in a zip file.
You just download, unzip.
If you have TomTom, you just need to copy/paste the files into the folder of your device which contains the map.

If this idea will be a go, I will look into this deeper and provide info for other systems.

[Joris]

POIFCLAOTW (Points of Interest for Coffee Lovers All Over the World)

Count me in.

[wvb]

thanks for the replies guys
will work out the idea and start bugging some people (CakeBoy..) to see how this is best done

[zix]

Have never considered buying a GPS, but now I do. Good idea, wvb!

[huub]

yup, awesome..
Do you know if these poi's are universal (for route 66 too for example)
or tomtom only?

[Raf]

Very good idea: I think we can put that sort of thing in the 'DOWNLOAD' section.

[GeorgeW]

Have never considered buying a GPS, but now I do. Good idea, wvb!

You do know that you're all barking mad...don't you?

People are going to start pointing soon.

[wvb]

Have never considered buying a GPS, but now I do. Good idea, wvb!

upgraditis is expanding

Do you know if these poi's are universal (for route 66 too for example)
or tomtom only?

every navigation system has its own format for POI's but I use a program called POI Edit and that can create POI's for a lot of different systems including Route66, TomTom & Garmin

[wvb]

just to let you know I'm working on an opening text for the topic

have had a crazy busy 2 weeks but hope to get around finishing it somewhere next week..

[CakeBoy]

Great stuff and thank you for all your effort for the benefit of everyone

[Gouezeri]

yeah, definitely think this could be useful, and we are considering a few other possibilities for the site to integrate with this! Could end up being a great community effort!

[zapty]

Great thinking Wietse, good idea, worth working out...