BoJangles Chicken POI

 

I've been searching high and low for a BoJangles POI, but haven't found one. . .

They have their location list online:
http://www.bojangles.com/aboutus_locations.html

It appears that my Garmin Nuvi 350 does have BoJangles locations in its DB, but my wife & I would like to know when one is near. We are heading down to Disney with the kids this weekend (From Maine to FL).

Anyone know of a POI for BoJangles?

-=Glen=-

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Hang on....

gsansoucie wrote:

I've been searching high and low for a BoJangles POI, but haven't found one. . .

They have their location list online:
http://www.bojangles.com/aboutus_locations.html

It appears that my Garmin Nuvi 350 does have BoJangles locations in its DB, but my wife & I would like to know when one is near. We are heading down to Disney with the kids this weekend (From Maine to FL).

Anyone know of a POI for BoJangles?

-=Glen=-

I will "park" my arenas project and try to create this one up for you later today or tomorrow.

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I have one for VA

I have one for VA

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All of the US

asianfire wrote:

I have one for VA

I just created the whole file (377 or so entries)
Includes most phone numbers and 1 location that is to open soon.

I have run 2 geocoders against it and am in the process of cleaning it up.

With any luck I'll be ready to upload it later this afternoon.

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Garmin Nüvi 855 & 760, iPhone, Magellan RM860T

Freshly Created

gsansoucie wrote:

I've been searching high and low for a BoJangles POI, but haven't found one. . .

They have their location list online:
http://www.bojangles.com/aboutus_locations.html

It appears that my Garmin Nuvi 350 does have BoJangles locations in its DB, but my wife & I would like to know when one is near. We are heading down to Disney with the kids this weekend (From Maine to FL).

Anyone know of a POI for BoJangles?

-=Glen=-

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/7155

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Garmin Nüvi 855 & 760, iPhone, Magellan RM860T

Asianfire also made one that

Asianfire also made one that is just for VA.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/7142

Miss Poi

Dom, You Rock!

Dom,

Thank you so much for this. It is going to make our trip!!!

I just created a bitmap for the POI, if I can figure out how to upload it, I will.

-=Glen=-

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-=Glen=-

It will serve me too

gsansoucie wrote:

Dom,

Thank you so much for this. It is going to make our trip!!!

I just created a bitmap for the POI, if I can figure out how to upload it, I will.

-=Glen=-

No problem,

I will make use of this too since I am driving to Florida from Ottawa Canada next April. I plan to check them out. Let me know if you find any errors!

Have a great trip

Dom

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Garmin Nüvi 855 & 760, iPhone, Magellan RM860T

Looks like I have some kind

Looks like I have some kind of odd Garmin issue with the POI. I've been able to upload the file, can see the .gpi file, I've renamed it to "BoJangles_poi.gpi" but the new category doesn't show up in my Custom POIs menu on the unit itself. I have a bunch of other .gpi files, not sure what happened.

(I actually uploaded it twice to check it out, once with a 10 mile - 52K ft proximity alert and one without).

I'm going to do some searching on the Garmin board to see what I did wrong.

-=Glen=-

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-=Glen=-

My fault

It was my fault. I was using the Loader wrong. I would use the loader, load a single csv, then rename the resultant .gpi to something more meaningful. I didn't realize I could put up to 32 files in a folder and have the loader load all of them into a single .gpi file.

Much neater now. . .

-=Glen=-

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Question

Perrdom wrote:

I just created the whole file (377 or so entries)
Includes most phone numbers and 1 location that is to open soon.

I have run 2 geocoders against it and am in the process of cleaning it up.

With any luck I'll be ready to upload it later this afternoon.

Dom,
I'm curious how you ensure that the geocode of each location is at the street level precision at the speed you do? I don't know of any geocoders that can always produce that accuracy (I've used GoogleEarth, Google MAP, Yahoo MAP, TerraServer & MapSource). Because of that, when you use Google and Yahoo MAP API programmatically they provide a precision value (0 through 9) for each geocoding result (my program rejects all that are not at the street level). In my experience of geocoding 2,000+ locations, completing 377 location would take me at least a week because 20-30% of them would never get street level precision. For these, I actually call the location for direction while following on GoogleEarth to get best-guess lat/lon...

FYI, The Google MAP API has 9 levels:
0 Unknown location.
1 Country level accuracy.
2 Region (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level accuracy.
3 Sub-region (county, municipality, etc.) level accuracy.
4 Town (city, village) level accuracy.
5 Post code (zip code) level accuracy.
6 Street level accuracy.
7 Intersection level accuracy.
8 Address level accuracy.

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Garmin nüvi® 660, iPhone 8gb (Technology is not the solution. It's only a tool to help you achieve it.)

GPS Visualizer - Google

theTraveler wrote:
Perrdom wrote:

I just created the whole file (377 or so entries)
Includes most phone numbers and 1 location that is to open soon.

I have run 2 geocoders against it and am in the process of cleaning it up.

With any luck I'll be ready to upload it later this afternoon.

Dom,
I'm curious how you ensure that the geocode of each location is at the street level precision at the speed you do? I don't know of any geocoders that can always produce that accuracy (I've used GoogleEarth, Google MAP, Yahoo MAP, TerraServer & MapSource). Because of that, when you use Google and Yahoo MAP API programmatically they provide a precision value (0 through 9) for each geocoding result (my program rejects all that are not at the street level). In my experience of geocoding 2,000+ locations, completing 377 location would take me at least a week because 20-30% of them would never get street level precision. For these, I actually call the location for direction while following on GoogleEarth to get best-guess lat/lon...

FYI, The Google MAP API has 9 levels:
0 Unknown location.
1 Country level accuracy.
2 Region (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level accuracy.
3 Sub-region (county, municipality, etc.) level accuracy.
4 Town (city, village) level accuracy.
5 Post code (zip code) level accuracy.
6 Street level accuracy.
7 Intersection level accuracy.
8 Address level accuracy.

I used GPS visualizer and the google option. On the site it only allows 8 entries at a time. MOST, not all, came back at 6, 7, or 8 level. I also run it against Batchgeocode or stevemorses geocoder. Then I run the GPS Visualizer at single and adjust the address (expand abbreviations etc.)

No guarantees the file a 100%, but they are as close to it that I can get.

Here is a comment I was emailed by a user:
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"I just downloaded your Cdn Tire file as I had recently made one and put it
on www.POInUSA.com. I checked your listing for Bancroft and found it to
be exactly correct, compared to mine which is a few Km's out.

I used GPS Vizualizer website to geocode the addresses, but I always find
some of the rural addresses are way off.

Which Geocoding service do you use - it seems better?"
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Again, I can't promise perfection, but I put the whole day in that file and checked everything I knew how.

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Garmin Nüvi 855 & 760, iPhone, Magellan RM860T

Addresses

theTraveler,

I should also point out if the companies can't send me a computer generated file I cut and paste the addresses from their website. Some, like Bojangles, are not too bad, others can be really long.

Starting to be quite comfortable with excel smile

On another note, I have 2 copies of the files, one for my Magellan and the second for Garmin since the field requirements are not the same.

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Garmin Nüvi 855 & 760, iPhone, Magellan RM860T

I just love

Bojangles! I haven't had any since I moved from NC to TX 15 years ago!! I will definitly download this file.

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Not doing anything worth a darn.