Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction where I can buy/downlaod a more up to date version of the Tomtom Point of Interest listing the Camping & Caravan Club CSs. The one I have was last updated in Dec 2006 and it is quite obvious there have been a lot of site owners no longer operating and a lot of new ones who have joined.
I still don't know why members can't download them from the Club's website.
Anyway, if you are able to help I will be most grateful.
Quote: Originally posted by rickit on 13/3/2008
You can easily make your own POI using poiedit or similar. I have one for Campsites and another for Camping Shops
I have POIEdit (though it seems a bit temperamental) but there must be literally thousands of C&CC CS's and I wouldn't have the time nor patience to try and manually enter them all. I think the list would be out of date before I finished! :lol: I'm not sure who originally compiles them anyway, given the Club doesn't seem to be involved with them. The camping shops probably change less frequently than the CSs.
Are you advertising this Rick or jsut saying you have too much time on your hands?! I know someone does it, just I would like to be able to download or purchase for a modest fee and up-to-date and accurate set of POIs.
For the moment though I have downloaded the latest one from Tomtom along with 'motorhome parking' which may prove useful - especially after my traumatic time when I was stranded down a one-way street in Ipswich to be confronted with a multi-storey carpark :( Anyway, I have left the old set of POIs and the new ones on my Tomtom to see if the new one is more up to date as Tomtom themselves don't guarantee the accuracy of the POIs submitted to them. :)
I bet Jim, they can get you in a good old muddle, the one I downloaded for Sainsburies has the Biggleswade one on the WRONG side of the A1. I did offer the POI for free to this site but they didn't want it, probably due to any routing issues people may have.
Miserable lot! :lol: I have found though, with experience that supermarkets, for example, and indeed some of the C&CC CSs are the *exact* GPS position of their site, which can mean an adjacent road from which there is no access attempts to lead you to the point. However, usually when this is the case the site/supermarket etc is visible and usually the detour is not too bad.
As you obviously know where Sainsbury's in Biggleswade is you must be pretty local to me as I am in Sandy.
I have contacted the C&CC to see if they are interested in being able to support the GPS POIs and maintain their database so that it is up to date and accurate and their automatic reply email promised faithfully I will receive a reply within three working days. It is now 6 working days and no response.
I don't believe so Rich. The program is Tomtom Home which is downloadable from Tomtom but I think only if you have a Tomtom device which is registered with them. However, there are CDs available from places such as ebay with the files on which, if not for your specific device, may be translated by third party programs. All of these are of dubious accuracy though but may be helpful and certainly the ones I have used to date, bar a couple, have been pretty good and useful, especially in the middle of nowhere where a single postcode may cover several square miles. The Tomtom uses the OV2 format and if yours does likewise, these third party POIs ought to work, but if they use a different format you may be able to convert them.
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Topic: Tomtom POIs - C&CC
I know someone does it, just I would like to be able to download or purchase for a modest fee and up-to-date and accurate set of POIs.
