Australian users. UBD/ WhereIs geodata, POI & map import?

[foob]

UBD Australian City Streets DVD
http://www.ubd.com.au/dvds
(same guys behind WhereIs.com)

The Australian City Streets DVD has some geodata and POIs. Is it possible to somehow import this, and/or their maps and other data, into MapThis! or any other tool for use in MapThis!?

If someone can list requirements for doing this (formats and such) I give this a go and report success/non-success from my own Australian City Streets DVDs (I have the latest version 5 and version 4, too). Obviously this would be for private use only.

I'm a (very) new MapThis! user and like what it has brought to my PSP so far (plain' ol' Google Maps), which I gotta admit, excited me more than it should. But of course we want moooooreee.

Cheers.

[foob]

To add some more info, I notice file extensions:

Maps are in CMP format (generally the largest files there).

For example:
map.cmp
accompanied by:
map.off
map.txt

then:
map2.cmp (which is smaller size-wise)
map2.off
map2.txt

Each text file contains info like this (taken from map.txt):
250901,5729099
70656,61440
16564,1656614
66244,5646257
264964,18442403
1059844,57682539
34816,41600

...that is the entirety of that file.

There's also:
key.cmp
key.off
key.txt

OFF files have random jibberish when opened with Notepad, so I'm assuming they're a binary of some sort.

and:
facility.lst (LST file, which i'm assuming is a list?)
which shows info like:
buiDescription,Filename,M
Aged Care,aged,1
Airports/Airfields,airport,1
Ambulance,ambulance,1
Auto Club Offices,rac,1
Bays Beaches Waterways etc,bay_bch,1
Boat Ramps,boatramp,0

...and so on when opened in Notepad.


Caravan parks, churches, golf clubs, hospitals and so forth are listed in CSV files like so:
mcaravanF.csv
mgolfF.csv

all start with m and end in F.
I'm looking at the Melbourne maps so they started them with m. Not sure why they all end in F but it shouldn't matter. All of them do from all states.

Anyway, they are regular CSV files listing suburbs and things for these things, like so:
"Altona North,Half Moon,cnr Geelong & Millers Rds", 310704 , 5812106

...and so on down a huge alphabetical list.

There's also some files with no extension:
streets_n
streets_r

Streets_n contains data (when opened in Notepad) like with street and suburb names like:
Adelaide St BLAIRGOWRIE
Adelaide St CREMORNE
Adelaide St DANDENONG

streets_r
contains random gibberish when opened in Notepad.
There's also files like:
suburb
suburb.e
suburb.n
Suburb contains postcode and suburb data like:
"Abbotsford (3067)"
"Aberfeldie (3040)"
"Airport West (3042)"
"Albanvale (3021)"
"Albert Park (3206)"
"Albion (3020)"

...and so on.
Suburb.e and Suburb.n (both small at 3KB) open up as random gibberish in Notepad.

Perhaps someone can make more sense of this than I can (I am ok with computers but a non-programmer).
Would be nice to make use of some of this data in the PSP.

Anyone with half a clue how we can do this for UBD users? Would be cool.

[TurboX]

Hi FOOB, I to want to get something happening on maps into my psp with a gps for geocaching in Aus and also for trip os to france and UK.

Just started looking tonight when I relised my old ngage was not th best tool to do this as the psp has a better screen for old eyes.

[corban987]

If you still have the data you I can try and covert some of it for you. From the files listed all you will probably need is the
streets_n
streets_r
from these 2 files you might be able to construct the geodata