Announcing - Metro area projects

Some of the files that I made for the Metro areas remain empty and I have been getting quite a few emails wanting to know what is up with these files. I have now added the following note to the files in question.

"This file is under construction and has no locations in it yet. Please contact Miss Poi if you would like to help fill this file."

Here is a list of the empty files that need to be filled, Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for these open projects.

Boston MA - Popular Restaurants
Cincinnati, OH - Popular Restaurants
Dallas/FT. Worth - Top Attractions and Popular Restaurants
Los Angeles, CA - Top Attractions
Minneapolis, MN - Top Attractions
Phoenix, AZ- All files
San Francisco, CA Popular Restaurants, Night Life and Top Attractions
St. Louis, MO - Attractions

Thanks for all of your help with these projects.

Miss Poi

we going to try if don't exist

...would be nice.

JMKthird

Denver Colorado, or the Front Range area.

I will be glad to help on the San Diego area. I am very new to GPS and POI's so will need a little help with the process. Do you go to each location and get the coordinates and them put them in a Excel work sheet?

Gary C

For now I'll tackle Halifax, NS. I'll also do some work province wide. Plan is exact co-ordinates from personal visit versus taken from some map or google. Let me know the format (csv or GPX)

I live outside of Asheville NC and have been working on a "Western North Carolina Attractions" POI file. I would be glad to pull out just Asheville/Bumcombe county POI's and then add to it.

Steve
swj54

Ski season is fast approaching, I feel a lot of people headed this way, sure would be cool to have a Denver/Rocky Mountains project.

If you do come this way B.Y.O.O. (Bring Your Own Oxygen)

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Is there a Metro project going on for Colorado??

I got the Transportation link back up now.

I will be making metro areas for Detroit Michigan for Rshan,

Toronto, CA for JCmilan,

Pittsburgh, PA for Slythex.

San Diego, CA for jmkthird & hognut

and Denver Colorado for you Frisbee Golfer.

I will put these at the top of my to do list today.
Right now our focus is to capture the larger well known cities.

Miss Poi

I got all those metro areas done and also made one for The Palm Beaches area for clem530.

Miss Poi

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How do we send in new locations, if we don't know which ones have been already covered?

You can send a note to one of the maintainers of the area you want to work in and see what they need help with.

Miss Poi

Miss Poi,

I noticed on each state we don't have area on Outlets. If you like I can start looking for known outlets on each state that is on the metro pages. I can use the internet/google maps/google earth/ to mapped them and have the exact place. I know this will only work if the satellite picture is up to date.

Gdlcjr,
Right now we have the Outlet shopping located together at this link.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/7278

We would like to keep the metro areas for things other then shopping and other chain items.

We eventually will have more things broken down by state also. We are still figuring out the organization plan

Miss Poi

A POI of the St. Louis Metro attractions already exists on this site. Suggest you start with that one. It's a good one and came in handy on my last trip.

This is a great forum

I'd be willing to work on a Cleveland project, they have alot to offer.

Well, I guess that means I had better get to work and make you a page with some files to fill:)

Miss POI

What needs to be done? Maybe I can help.

Zuma,
What area are you in?

I can make a page for your metro area also if there is not one already there.

Miss POI

I went and looked at the metro area for Atlanta and saw my B B & T POI which I thought was replaced. I can continue to make changes if desired. Anything else you would like me to work on in the same manner would suit me fine. Give me a topic and if not too large I will search for locations and Geo Code them or an address list and I will find their location (Long/Lat) and create a file. Just give me some direction.

There are a few POI files that are not in the list of Greater Boston Area since they don't start with "B" in the alphabetical list. Don't know how to add them. How do you add to or edit the list?

Anyway, the already posted POI files are Greater Boston Golf Courses and two files from Lynn, MA (general area).

I have that file featured on the Boston page now, thanks for bringing that to my attention

Miss POI

Zuma,
It looks like we are missing the Popular restaurants file and the Top attractions file for that area. Would you be willing to add locations to those files if I make them for you?

Miss POI

Yes, I assume the CSV files or a list of names and addresses needing Long/Lat.

yup that will work

Ball is in your court. Send files and I will get started. I will send you a message in case you don't have my email address.

I would be willing to help start a project for the Tampa Bay Area in Florida. The area includes the major cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Area

It is a great winter vacation spot and not that far from Orlando.

I would just need some help and guidance to get going in the right direction. I've started looking at some of the other metro projects to see what they have contributed. Is there one, or more, of them that would serve as a good model to follow?

I will get that up later this afternoon;) The Metro area's that we have are in various stages. Some members requested them and then have not returned to the site to work on them so that have been waiting for people to come and fill the files that have been made.

Miss POI

OK! I'm retired, I have the time.

From reading some of the other posts here, it sounds like you have some kind of "blank" or predefined files that you can send me. If that's correct, it would be helpful and give me a starting point.

can we add corpus christi, tx to the list of metro areas. i would be willing to contribute poi files.

thanks,
louis

I can make that happen, it may take me a day or two. I am a bit back logged right now and need to catch up.

Miss POI

I see you already have two people working the area. I'm new to GPS, my Nuvi 760 arrived about a week ago so I'm still learning. I'm very map, computer and database savvy so I can contribute right from the get go. I'm an Atlanta native and a volunteer tour guide for several tours with the Atlanta Preservation Center. I will be checking the existing materials now and I will have several suggested additions that I'll be making. Let me know if you need anything else that I can work on.

Atlanta Attractions file is limited by my knowledge. I am also an Atlanta native but don't want to clutter the file with insignificant attractions. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Your experience would provide great insight in what people wish to visit most often. My Streetpilot displays only the 50 closest locations so I hope to keep the list to 50. This will enable the GPSr user in the middle of Atlanta access to the 50 most prominent attractions.

Atlanta Attractions file is limited by my knowledge. I am also an Atlanta native but don't want to clutter the file with insignificant attractions. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Your experience would provide great insight in what people wish to visit most often. My Streetpilot displays only the 50 closest locations so I hope to keep the list to 50. This will enable the GPSr user in the middle of Atlanta access to the 50 most prominent attractions.

Anyone else out there interested in Baltimore? I'd be willing to help out but I'm still pretty much a n00b so I'd need guidance.

I can help whenever you get around to doing Baton Rouge

I was just thinking that it was time to add Baltimore to the list.

I will see about getting that up by the end of the week;)

Miss POI

I will also get this Metro Area started;)

Miss POI

I'd like to suggest Orange County, California as a separate metro area. True, it IS right next to LA county, and could be considered a suburban region, but it definitely has an identity of its own, and is separated by (admittedly very small) mountains. Yelp, Craigs List, and a number of other sites have Orange County listed as a separate region.

just something to think about.

I'd be glad to contribute a few items to the OC metro project

I will add this to my list also, I should be able to get these up later this week.

Miss POI

just a reminder, still looking for Corpus Christi, TX to be added when you get a chance.

thx,
louis

Wow, that was a ball drop and a half. Sorry about that, I have added it to the list.

Miss POI

Great - glad you decided to add it - and glad you decided to wait till later this week, cause I'm on vacation this week. After i get back to O.C. this weekend, I'll start getting some readings for some of the major attractions in the area.

Hooray! Baltimore is up. How do I volunteer to work on it?

Just go ahead and make files and I will link them.

Miss POI

I'm working on one now. We'll see what I can get done this weekend.