Orange County, CA - Project Discussion

Orange County is in SOuthern California.

Cities in the area include Anaheim (home of Disneyland), Newport Beach (i think this is where the TV show "The OC" is set), Irvine, Huntington Beach (isnt there a tv show about the Life Guard team from here?), Laguna Beach (didn't MTV do a show about high schoolers from here?), San Juan Capistrano (of the swallows fame) and Dana Point (this is where OJ was going when the cops were chasing him down the 405)

If you;re a big fan of the TV show "Lost", you might know that several of the characters had encounters here. John Locke worked for a box company in Tustin, and was also a building inspector, and inspected Sayid's girlfriend's house in Irvine. Libby gave her boat to Desmond for his race, and her boat was moored in Newport Beach.

Doheny Beach near Dana Point, as well as Huntington Beach, and "The Wedge" in Newport Beach are well known surfing spots.

City of Orange fireman and para-medic.... He get's into Disnyland for free....

i just did a search, and found 2 OC-specific POI files:

Orange County California Cigar stores
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14842

Starbucks in California (South Orange County)
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/2980

I'm wondering exactly what kind of places would belong in the "Attractions" category?

Of course, Disneyland is an obvious choice. There are a couple nice museums in the area that should probably go in the list.

I'm pondering Golf Courses - should those be separate?

Beaches - How many would you say it would take to qualify for a separate file?

Do you think a really high end mall like SOuth Coast Plaza, with factory stores like Rolex and Chanel, would belong in attractions? Or in a separate Shopping category? or both?

Knotts Berry Farm, Movieland Wax Musuem

Knotts Berry Farm, Movieland Wax Musuem

The movieland Wax Museum Closed down a couple years ago

Ripleys and Medieval Times are still there though, or were, last time i was up that direction a year or so ago. When i get the hang of the bach geocoding tools, and/or get up that direction again to get a good reading, i'll be glad to upload them,

Just uploaded a small attractions POI file

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/15901

COrrections, additions, comments are definitely welcome.

I just uploaded a poi file with public golf courses in Orange County.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16539

I'ld like to go ahead and volunteer to be the Orange County Metro maintainer.

I've put together a couple POI files for the area, and got one other member willing to help me verify entries occasionally, Nick.

OC is a big area, so I hope i'll be able to find some other volunteers to verify some locatiosn or me. I geocoded some starbucks - 3 of them ended up with lat/long in the San Fransisco area....500+ miles north So in my spare time i'm gonna poke around here and at some o the other GPS forums and see if I can find some volunteers in various parts of the county to double check some entries.

Starbucks file covering all of Orange County

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16545

Lived in Irvine for over 30 years but relatively new to GPS/POI world. Let me know what I can do to help.

oski65

well, if ya want to help, grab some of the POI files posted here, and if and when you feel like it, make a suggestion for entries. There any interesting attractions in Irvine i didnt include in the attractions list?
If there are, go get a gps reading for it near the entrance....and drop me a note....
and when you have the time and gumption, go by some o the starbucks, or golf courses, or whatever, and get a gps reading, cause I know a couple of the geocoding is inaccurate. If ya load the starbucks file into mapsource, a couple in the mission viejo area get mapped to the San Fransisco area, as an example. So if ya happen to have some free time and energy, maybe you could get some gps readings near the front door of some of the golf courses, starbucks, etc, and drop me a note.

Its totally up to you of course how many you do, but any contribution would be greatly appreciated.

Ok guys - any suggestions for OC specific POI files?

Grocery Stores?
Post Offices?
Hotels?
Bars?
Nightclubs?
Pharmacies?
Churches?
Trashy Liquor stores?

I got to thinking the other day about files that we seem to be missing. I realized that we don't have any dry cleaning locations for those business people that have an accident and need to have their shirt cleaned professionally.

These would be good to have for the metro areas.

Miss POI

I have an interesting idea for a POI project. I'm not sure how to approach it though, because I'm pondering setting it up to use a feature that may be unique to Garmin Nuvi's

The local paper, the Orange County Register, publishes an annual "Best of Orange County", with Top 5's of various things, voted on by readers.

Anyway, I discovered that I can create a subfolder in the folder I store my POI files in on my PC, put several POI files in them, then sync them with my Nuvi. AFter I synch, I can go to the POI section of my Nuvi, and for example, I'll have a POI file entry for "Burger Joints", and when I select that, the GPS will present me with a list of POI files such as Burger King, McDonalnds, Wendy's....and then I can chose....

ANy thoughts on a POI file group liek this?

There are quire a few museums in OC and two that are favorites for kids is the Children's Museum in La Habra and the discovery center in Santa Ana

Flaco did something similar for the Tampa Bay area. Check out how he put his together: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/9692

We also have a lot of other people geocoding the top lists from their areas and adding them to the metro areas. Here is waht Disneyteach put together for Chicago: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16256

Washington DC is another great example of this: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/3749

Miss POI

Ya know I forgot all about the CHildren's Museum....I'll add that...
And I believe i already have the Discovery Center, but I just remembered, there's a Nature Center near the Back Bay, off Dover...Don't think I put that in.
Anyway, I'll double check those things, and update if needed.

Great Miss POI - Thanks for the Pointers

I just added two POI files for O.C.

Movie Theaters
COmputer stores

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16876

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/16878

Suggestions, corrections, etc welcome
(by email if ya can - email is easier than wading through the forum posts for important stuff)