America First Credit Union Locations
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 6:16am
15 years
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Hi guys. I just finished up creating a custom POI file with all the America First Credit Union locations in Utah.
This was my first POI project...and I learned a lot while doing it, but I made a few mistakes along the way. First of all, I uploaded a version of the finished project yesterday (we'll call it version 0.5), but now that I've gone back and fixed all the errors, I can't find the file here so I can delete it and get the good version uploaded. When I upped it yesterday, it said everything uploaded successfully...sooooo where did it go? :?
Just a few things I had to learn the hard way:
- Always use the correct coordinate format! This is what really screwed me up.
- Adhere to the proper CSV format. Once I had all my coordinates converted to the proper format, I had to deal with another format issue…but with Excel made it easier by moving entire columns, and the “find and replace” function helped add all the (“) (,) (“,”) I needed.
- Mapsource is a piece of garbage. I ended up using Garmin’s POI Loader to get all my files on to my nuvi 760.
Send it on over
Go ahead and send me the updated file and I will get it uploaded to the page you have already made for it;)
When you make a file it does not go up right away, it goes into a moderation queue and it will get published to the public once I get it all cleaned up and verified.
Miss POI
maryann@poi-factory.com
Good to know
The file that I emailed you along with the POI icon is the correct version...so if that's what ended up getting posted, then everything is good.
Now I need to see about getting an alert sound file made for it.
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