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[Guyute]

Does anyone have any knowledge of a site where I can download points of interest for a certain area? Any help would be great.

[+Team Hoijong]

Try SwopNet Waypoint Databank

 

I think there are some links to waypoints you are looking for

 

Irresisti

N12º 55.475

E100º 52.865

[+KYtrex]

If you are a user of ExpertGps or PanTerra, you can download waypoints for the whole US on the Topografix site. I use ExpertGPS and I am 110% satisfied with it. Off topic, I download my tracks from when I ride my atv and now I have a map of everywhere I have rode it. Very cool. Here is the address to read more about it.

 

http://www.topografix.com/data.asp

 

Hope this helps.

 

KYtrex

[jfitzpat]

In addition to SwapNet mentioned above, there is also: http://www.waypoint.org/

 

The government databases, which I believe are the basis for many of the points of interest from Garmin, Magellen, Topographix, etc. can actually be downloaded raw from:

 

http://ftp.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html

http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/zipstats.html

http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisftp.html

 

(The last one is a couple million waypoints, nation wide).

 

But, the data needs fudging (often in different map datums, etc.).

 

You can search most of it online, and pretty much cleaned up at my web site http://www.lostoutdoors.com But, the search choices are extremely limited (basically, it is OK for finding something you know the name of).

 

Craig, at my office, whipped together a Visual Basic app test test some ActiveX controls we have for generating aerial and topo maps, upload/download waypoints, etc. It actually includes a pretty comprehensive online GNIS search (you can filter, just ask for all visible on the current map, etc.) The app is just a sample, but it is free and can be downloaded at: http://www.etree.com/tech/notsofreestuff/maptools/vbsample.html

 

Good Luck,

-jjf