Hess service stations

It looks like that is a station we don't have yet.

Here is a catalog of what we do have, http://www.poi-factory.com/taxonomy/term/24

Miss POI

Hess stations are mostly in the North Eastern US so someone from that part of the country will need to get it started.

Dear Miss POI,

A very nice lady at Hess provided me with an Excel file of their service stations. I was wondering if there be a way of globally converting the addresses to coordinates.

david

David,
Here is a list of sites that can help you out with that.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/821

Thanks for doing that for us.

Miss POI

Go to this site and copy and paste what she gave you and it will give you the lat/long to create a csv file to load in the GPSr

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

Dear Flaco,

Thank you. I have, however, been trying to do it one by one with Google Earth in an effort to place the coordinates more accurately as well as looking to see if a Hess petrol station has a telephone number (Hess seems to keep that a secret). Moreover, I find Google Earth to be entertaining (there must be something wrong with me). So far I am up to 130 Hess petrol stations.

I am sorry that I did not respond sooner.

david

Dear Friends,

I have finished entering the stations from the list that Hess gave me except for the state of Florida. I am still working on Florida.

Some of the addresses need to be confirmed and I have listed them towards the bottom of the "Read more" page for the Hess POI file. I would be most grateful if those of you who live in the communities where these stations are located would be so kind as to correct mistaken addresses or provide coordinates.

Sincerely, david

As fellow maintainer of several pois I inherited I know how time consuming checking addresses is. Thanks for the great work..

Thank you, sir. I appreciate your kind words.

david

David - I looked at your list of FL locations. Unfortunately, I don't live close to any of the locations except for Brooksville, but I have no reason to be up that way any time soon. Sorry, I would have helped if I could.

???

In Ormond Beach, FL area.
Verified coordinates !

1102 W. Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL 32174
-81.097910,29.270698

700 S. Nova Rd, Ormond Beach, FL 32174
-81.076967,29.262982

1695 N. Nova Rd., Holly Hill, FL 32117
-81.060233,29.241973

Thank you, Ken. However, I am still working my way alphabetically through Florida excepting Naples, where a friend has a place. By the way, on my way home from upstate New York this afternoon, I noticed that a rest area on the eastbound side of Interstate 86 (also known as NY-17) did not alert. The one a little east of it for the other direction did alert. Right after I passed the entrance I noted the mile marker, which is right by the rest area itself; that is Mile Marker 212.

I appreciate your help. As I have to return to work tomorrow morning, my entries for Florida may slow down a little. Florida is the last state I am working from the list I received from Hess; I have gone through the rest.

david

Dear Gary,

I received the email you sent me at MovingTarget5x@aol.com and I replied from my regular AOL address after adding your address to AOL's Mail Controls so that you will be able to write me there as well. The Moving Target address is not restricted; I just change its suffix when spam finds it.

david

Dear Gary,

Florida is being very popular today and, as luck would have it, it is the last state in my attention to the list that Hess gave me; I have been through the list of the District of Columbia and the other fifteen states. I am up to working on the letter "F" from the Hess list for towns in Florida (Naples is an exception). In the list, I seem to have arrived at Fort Myers, which is the aerodrome at which I arrived when going to Naples with a friend. Most of the alphabet in Florida awaits and there seem to be quite a few Hess stations there.

Thank you for your help and, although the letter "G" awaits, I can certainly work your town out of sequence. Just give me its name and I shall jump to it.

david

P.S. When I wrote that "the letter 'G' awaits," it made me feel like a producer on Sesame Street. Of course, my version would be an imitation of Eddie Murphy doing Mister Robinson's Neighbourhood.

Dear Ken,

You are most welcome. I love the rest-stop file.

I have no idea why AOL is behaving badly. If you use the internal email here at the Factory, you can send me your email address so that I can add it to AOL's Mail Controls, which will then let you write me at my regular address at AOL instead of the unrestricted maildrop.

david

Dear Ken,

I have just entered those in the file and have uploaded it. Do you have telephone numbers for those two Ormond Beach locations? I found the number for that Holly Hill station.

The Hess list has another two stations I have added in the area:

1537 Ridgewood Av @ Flomich St, Holly Hill, 32117

1629 W Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach, 32174 (386-615-6955)

I could use a telephone number for the station on Ridgewood Av in Holly Hill.

Thank you for your kind participation in the Hess POI project. I am currently working on the towns that start with the letter "F". If you want me to jump ahead to any other particular town in Florida, I am happy to oblige. Just let me know and I shall tackle that venue first.

david

Although the Hess Station is shown at 1537 Ridgewood Av @ Flomich St, Holly Hill, 32117
I cannot find a listing of it locally, either in the telephone book or local gas stations. It may just be an office.
I am heading thru that area tomorrow - will visually check out.

Dear Ken,

Thank you. I am most grateful for your help. Florida is the last state on which I am working from the list that Hess gave me and it shows 320 stations in the state.

After I finish with Florida, I shall have to ask Hess if they have opened any new stations since they sent me the list at the beginning of the year.

david

I wish those who live in Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia would help me confirming Hess station locations in their communities. Please click here and scroll down to THE LIST OF STATIONS THAT NEED TO BE CONFIRMED ---> http://www.poi-factory.com/node/10872 .

If you live near one of those addresses, please let me know if that station exists and its corrected address or coordinates.

david

Dear JG,

There are twenty-seven Hess stations in Jacksonville, Florida.

david

Yesterday, pbabowler sent me thirty-four locations of Hess stations (all with coordinates and many with telephone numbers) in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Viginia from the TO BE CONFIRMED LIST. I am deeply impressed.

They have been incorporated into the database and uploaded to the Factory. The TO BE CONFIRMED LIST has been updated.

Thank you, pbabowler.

david

Dear Friends,

Today I changed the unrestricted address at AOL that I use as my maildrop. Some folks said that email was being rejected by AOL and I could not fathom why. I therefore deleted the old address for my "Moving Target" and started a new one (MovingTarget4g@aol.com). I hope this may resolve the problem.

I am also reachable through the internal email system here at the Factory.

david

"The Factory" - sounds like we should all be wearing hard hats, eye protection, ear plugs, steel toed boots and carry lunch pails.

I went ahead and changed your email in your user account to reflect your new email address. Let me know if I should have left it and I will change it back.

Miss POI

Dear Miss POI,

Please leave my regular address as before. It is restricted but your domain was added to AOL's Mail Controls when I joined the Factory and I receive your email without difficulty.

david

Dear Tovarich Gary,

That is just the right impression -- and quite a becoming image at that. Please do not forget to place your union sticker on your hard hat, tie the bandana around your neck, and adjust your toolbelt at a jaunty angle.

Your brother/comrade in Marx, Tendency Groucho,

david

How could I forget that! Shame on me (bad Gary, bad Gary).

Do I remember correctly that Miss POI said some time ago that someone wanted to tour the "factory" where the POIs were made?? Or, am I dreaming?

(there I go, leading with my chin again)

I think it was something like that . a school field trip if i am thinking right.
When you said leading with your chin couldnt resist this one post. Stick that chin out here Gary.

It does not look like those paws have been de-clawed, I would not stick your chin out to far;)

Yup it was a school wanting to schedule a tour. I was really cracking up over that one.
Most recently we had a city call us to see a presentation of our red light camera systems so that they could give us a bid.

I will not mention what city.
Miss POI

I don't think I could have stopped laughing long enough to explain it to them. Then again, just how do you explain this website to people who obviously don't get it?!?

Too funny

Now that we have sucessfully hijacked David's thread and taken it way off topic... maybe we should give it back to him.

p.s. Darn cat!

Dear Gary,

I did mention that I am from the Groucho Tendency within Marxism.

david

P.S. Does your cat like Animal Crackers?

I know what Gilda Radner would say at this point.

That is toooooo much, if they only thought that the site is giving ways to BEAT the camera. Not enforcing it.

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" -- Captain Louis Renault

The twenty-seven stations in Jacksonville were added today.

I finally finished the list I received from Hess at the beginning of the year. I hope that folks will take a look at the list of addresses that need to be confirmed.

...this is August. I'm sure the file is outdated by now!

Dear Gary,

I am sure there may be many coffee beans being ground with petroleum additives (see posting above from MrKenFL). Who knows how many Hess stations are now called Java Junction Coffee. However, perhaps it adds flavour. I know that my local Hess station provides a variety of flavoured coffee; perhaps coffee is just another kind of fuel.

Coffee is the drink of The Workers (when we are not imbibing tea, beer, red wine, or single-malt whisky).

david

... to mess with. I do it mostly to see what you'll come back with. I know it will always be entertaining.

Dear Gary,

I had my coffee this morning (with Vanilla Silk and some powdered chocolate in it). I still have my buzz on. Unfortunately I am out of wine and whisky at the moment to wind me in the other direction. Could you bring over a bottle of something?

david

How can you do that to a cup of COFFEE. Shame on you david.

A wee dram of whisky in it is good too as long as I have someone else to do the driving.

david

Is that bigger or smaller than a scoch, smidgen, pinch or tad? I need a basis for comparison.

Dear Gary,

That is why the gods invented Google. I assure you it is a most common expression in Inverness (my mother's home town). Even the Loch Ness Monster, who lives nearby, is familiar with the concept although his dram may be greater than 3.7 millilitres.

david

Dear JCG,

After finishing the Hess list on August 21, I noted that Florida has over forty stations remaining to be confirmed -- this is more than double the number of any other state. Perhaps you still feel that "someone from that part of the country will need to get it started"? Perhaps someone from an adjacent state should resolve the unconfirmed locations in Florida?

david

David - tried sending this to you via POI Factory contact e-mail - e-mail rejected.

Anyway - the Hess Station at 4590 S. Ridgewood Ave.(US-1) in Port Orange, FL has been verified.

Coordinates are -80.984770,29.137902

Will be driving up to Flagler later today to try to verify that one:

Update: Drove up to Flagler Beach.
Did not see a Hess Station at
4861 East Hwy 100, Flagler Beach, FL

Also checked on Hess website and they don't list one at this address.

Thank you, Ken. I had thought with the previous problems with AOL that I would rely on the internal email system here at the Factory. Apparently that also may have a glitch.

david