Monday, April 16, 2007
Garmin POI - Yamaha dealers in the U.S. and Canada
Most Garmin GPS units released in or after 2005 can use the Garmin POI Loader to load custom points-of-interest databases. (Click on the link to download this Windows application, and for details on which Garmin units are supported.)
The following Zip file contains GPX files with POI data for all Yamaha motorcycle dealers in the United States and Canada:
Extract one or both of the GPX files into an empty folder. Run the Garmin POI Loader, and select the folder with the GPX file(s). These files contain no proximity or speed data, so Express Mode works well.
See the Garmin POI Loader site for complete details on using the POI Loader.
POI's are updated at the beginning of each quarter; the next update is scheduled for July 1, 2007. If you find any errors in the data, please send me an e-mail.
Details on each dealer include the dealer's name, address, and local phone number (in Zumo direct-dial format). The data is extracted from Yamaha's U.S. and Canadian web-based dealer locater sites, and is current as of the date of this posting. Latitude and longitude data is provided by Yamaha for U.S. dealer locations; Geocoder.ca is used to determine the latitude and longitude for Canadian dealers. Note that a small number of Canadian dealers have names ending with (Z). This indicates that Geocoder.ca did not recognize the street address of the dealer; the latitude and longitude are based on the postal code only.
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Posted by bnc at April 16, 2007 9:32 AM