[gps-talkusers] Re: Compiling user.poi entries from phone book ??

Hi, Todd.  That's exactly what I mean.  For example, I'm a coin 
collector.  So I go to superpages.com and grab the entries for all the coin 
shops in my city, or in a city I plan to visit.
Aloha,
Doug
At 2, you wrote:
>Doug,
>
>Do you mean, for example, you go to www.superpages.com, you look for a 
>certain person to obtain his telephone number, you copy his postal address 
>onto the user.poi file, right?  Please be more clear to what are say as it 
>is a bit not clear to me.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Todd
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: doug martin <dwtmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:20:46 -0400
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] Compiling user.poi entries from phone book ??
>
> >Hi.  When planning to visit a new city, does it make sense to compile a
> >user.poi file from that city's telephone book?  I have added some poi's
> >that way, and they seem to work just fine.
>
> >On a similar note, would it be possible to make bpi files from a Yellow
> >Pages database?  It seems quite straightforward, writing a c program
> >containing database queries to retrieve records matching specific criteria,
> >and then deleting the records which duplicate the existing state.bpi file.
> >Aloha,
> >Doug Martin

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