Fire Departments US POI Discussion Forum

 

Greetings Everyone!

This discussion group is for the Fire Departments US (CSV Format) POI project file. Please report any coordinate/address corrections and or updates, closings, etc. Also, feel free to provide comments about the POI. You may also email any changes directly to the Project Lead (which currently is me).

Thanks for your help!

VinceCANuvi

POI Files

  • Fire Departments US (CSV Format) http://www.poi-factory.com/node/Greetings Everyone!

    This discussion group is for the Fire Departments US (CSV Format) POI project file. Please report any coordinate/address corrections and or updates, closings, etc. Also, feel free to provide comments about the POI. You may also email any changes directly to the Project Lead (which currently is me).

    Thanks for your help!

    VinceCANuvi

    POI Files

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Vince Nuvi 350

It would have been helpful

It would have been helpful to have put in the headers for the few columns. I could not ever use the info. I assumed the first two columns were lattitude and longitude, but using that assumption when I entered the data for the first record, Microsoft Streets and Trips mapped it in Antartica rather than Oklahoma. It would have been useful to strip out the extraneous data of things like and (from Fire Departments US POI) . It would have also been nice to strip the county out and put it in its own column.

CSV format will only allow

CSV format will only allow four columns. Garmin used to require Column A to be Lon and Column to be Lat., and may have been changed, recently. That only leaves one column for address and one more for phone.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267

i can hardly

Wait for this POI to become available.

You'll never know how often I wshed I'd known the location of the nearest fire department was... Its not uncommon for my a$$ to be set on fire after saying something sarcastic to a beautiful woman! mrgreen

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Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!

Still lots of room

Quote:

POI Loader assumes a .csv file utilizes the following format for each POI (brackets [ ] denote optional text):

<Lon>,<Lat>,["]<Name>[@<Alert Speed>]["],["] [comment]["]

Longitude and latitude must appear in WGS84 decimal degrees format (ddd.ddddd; negative numbers indicate West and South).

If you include quotes around the name or comment, you can include line breaks in the text.

The following are examples of Custom POIs in the proper format:

-94.81549,38.80390,Bonita

-94.79731,38.81099,Ridgeview@25

-94.74240,38.81952,Heritage Park,Perfect site for a picnic

-94.76416,38.81227,Garmin,"1200 E. 151st Street

Olathe,KS 66062
913/397.8300"

note that the speed is optional.
Note that quotes (") should surround anything that has a character that might be misunderstood - like the comma following "Olathe" in the last example.

So many people have 4 columns
1. Lon
2. Lat
3. Name
4. All other info - usually address - sometime including phone number.

fire department list

For a non-geocoded list of fire departments (27193) go here: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/census-download/main/download

@sudeten

I see that this is your first post.

I looked at the site and it provides lots of information

Welcome to the site.

We usually recommend the following.

There is a "Learn" button in the upper right of this page next to "red light cameras" that takes you to a Getting Started page. It is worthwhile visiting this page.

To make navigation easy, most browsers provide the following option. When you want to follow a link - but still keep your current page open - you can hold down the "Ctrl" key as you left-click on a link. That action will open a new "Tab" in your browser up on the "Tab" bar. When you then left-click on that new "Tab", you will follow the link - leaving the "Tab" you are now reading open and available to click on and return here.

So, using the "Learn" link, you might try the "Ctrl" - left-click sequence and then return here. You can return by either "X-ing" out of the "Getting Started" page (using the "X" on the "Tab" itself) or just left-clicking on the "Tab" for the page you are on right now.

Note that the Learn Button will give you access to two valuable reference pages -
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Since you are new here, I encourage you to go through a couple of the Tutorials.

The first link makes sure the settings on your computer are such that you can do more advanced POI loading.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30393

The next link helps you make a backup of your GPS by attaching it to your computer. (NEVER do anything to your GPS until you have a backup). It also assures that you put your (newer) unit into a state where you can see all of the folders there.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30394

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