[Roadster] POI Data

[Don Smith]

I contacted a small owner maintained database of organic restaurants  
and farmers markets just to see if they would release the database as  
it amounts to free advertising. Amazingly they said they would and  
asked for a format. Wanting to be honest I'd like to give them at  
least 2 formats, 1 for the most popular (including in vehicles) and 1  
for roadster. The problem is I don't know the most popular, and last  
I checked roadster doesn't have a format, or list of formats it can  
import.

Does anyone have any suggestions on either front?

Don Smith
On May 4, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Ian McIntosh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In short, get files here[1] (scroll to the bottom) and then select the
> whole bunch when doing an import.  Then do a search or two until it
> matches a road. :)
>
> [1] http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2004fe/tgr2004fe.html
>
> Be warned: It takes a very long time.  Unless you want to actually use
> Roadster while out in a car or something, I suggest you only import  
> one
> or two zip files at first.
>
> For the near future, JCole and I have talked about a) pre-parsing the
> tiger zip files and distributing the geography database pre-generated
> and b) changing to a much more compact data format, to speed up access
> time and also reduce size (substantially).
>
> -Ian
>
>
>> Is there a link from which I can download tiger.zip data that can be
>> easily imported into roadster? I've looked at tiger website but it's
>> plenty confusing and it seems that tiger data is split into many
>> different files.
>>
>> In short: where can I find data for roadster and how can I import  
>> them
>> into roadster?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Krzysztof Kowalczyk | http://blog.kowalczyk.info
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