Hi Andrew, Well, the only ones I'd use in the SatNav would be the location of road bridges. The idea there would be to warn me I was approaching an interesting feature (i.e. the canal), how sad is that? :-)
And thanks to everybody who have made suggestions. bcnu Dave --- In [email protected], Andrew Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:30:31 -0000, "David Crowe" > >>>wrote: > >>> > >>> >Hi, > >>> > > >>> >I seem to recall a long time ago that someone was collecting GPS > >>> >Points of Interest data related to canals, or am I imagining it? > >>> > > >>> >If someone has collected such information I would be very pleased > to > >>> >receive a copy of it, thanks. > > On 12 January 2007 at 21:38:53 > Sue Burchett wrote > > >Nick Atty Canal Planner?? > >I thought he was doing something along these lines. > >Sue nb Nackered Navvy > > > > Indeed, the wonderful Canal Planner does allow you to export your chosen > route (export as "CSV with lat.long" ), but it needs a bit of fiddling > (I think) to be able to load it into your satnav (not much point really > - they prefer roads) or Google Earth (great fun). > > Someone on another forum has come up with an Excel macro which will > convert this file so that it can then be imported into Google Earth > (amongst other things) but I won't put the macro here as it may not be > of general interest (and I haven't asked him if I can, yet). > > -- > Andrew Case >
