[gps-talkusers] FURTHER EXPERIENCE OF UK POIS
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:29:01 +0100
Hi all
I have just returned from a short break on the English South Coast. Generally
the Sendero system acquitted itself pretty well.
We found a good place to stop on the way down. A nice pub just off the M25
which we would not have known about without Sendero. Against that we were sent
on a couple of wild goose chases after places that did not appear to exist. The
consistency and quality of the POI data continues to make me wonder. I found
one motor repair place that was listed under at least five different names.
There are only five alcohol establishments within 40 miles of Hastings (we were
looking for a winery). The only places listed were wine shops and a couple of
off-licences. Every single public house appears to be categorised under
Restaurant, most have a subcategory of Cafe. One restaurant/cafe I declined to
try was Hastings Buklding Services which got in there somehow.
I can confirm that there are no churches in the whole of the UK apart from the
odd one that gets itself listed as a tourist attraction. I wish I could think
of some way of getting matters improved but Tele Atlass seem to be too big to
take much notice of individuals. I was hoping that with productgs like Tomtom
using the same maps things would improve but most Tomtom systems do not seem to
make a great deal of use of POI data and certainly not in the same way that we
users of Sendero do.
The postcode facility appears to work really well. We were able to find a
couple of places using their postcodes.
Steve
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