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

From: Michael May <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:34:21 -0700

Doug,

What you describe is esentially how some of these databases have been 
created. No reason someone couldn't derive their own points from the yello 
pages. There might be licensing issues if we did it commercially.

Mike


At 11:20 AM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
>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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From: John Gallagher

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