Convert SQL to Geodata for Australia

[kaitoudark]

a_haouchar yes the GPS with PSP does work in Australia.
I don't know if the geodata I have can actually search street and numbers. All i know is that suburbs will work.
I'll have to have a check for that.

[a_haouchar]

thanks i clearly get this

i hope the geodata works out

[pldrummerboy]

G'day gents, I am new to the world of map this on psp etc..... I currently have FW 3.40 oe-a, map this 0.499 & holux m1000 running. It seems pretty damn good and had no probs with psp but on the other hand I have huge probs with download tool!!! to download a map about 400mb in size it takes about 3 days!!!! what am I doing wrong? any answers???

[kaitoudark]

Your not doing anything wrong. When making maps it does take a long time. Mine took me 1 day to make. There are various factors that make it longer. E.g. The size of the map your downloading and also the selected zoom levels you have. If you have lots of zoom levels it will take longer to download.

[inthemix]

Very interested in the outcome of converted geodata for Australia. I'm in sydney myself, so any news on progress in this area would be greatly appreciated. Any results kaitoudark?

On that note, i was wondering is there any way to extract geodata from the map cd/dvds that come with full fledged gps units such as a Navman?

Also...

G'day gents, I am new to the world of map this on psp etc..... I currently have FW 3.40 oe-a, map this 0.499 & holux m1000 running.

just wanted to ask if your setup works well. i'm in the market for a holux gps unit and am tossing up between getting the GPS slim236/240 that MapThis! was originally designed for or the newer M1000 (which apparently has faster Time To First Fix etc)

[sneaky101]

im really intrested in geodata for australia. last month i nearly crashed my car, starring at the map. and recently i got my 290. that made life better, but geodata would be even more of.win. also i have poi's for all retail shops, fast food, speed cameras, fuel, etc..

[tetravus2001]

hey sneaky, would u mind sharing those POIs? i live in sydney and have been trying to make some POIs but i haven't had time to finish them just yet. would be greatly appreciated; if sharing of these kind of files is permitted...
geodata would be awesome, i'd be happy to help out if there is anything that can be done to speed the process up =) i'm kinda new to all this MapThis homebrew

[inthemix]

regarding my suggestion earlier about extracting geodata from the map data cd's that come with commercial gps units, it seems the application 'nokia maps' as used by S60 mobile phones for GPS navigation has a map data folder.

from my understanding it allows for address lookups and various POIs in sydney and other parts of australia. in7ane would it be possible to convert the map data used by 'nokia maps' into geodata that 'map this!' could use?

[catch22]

Anyone get anywhere with all this I have the POI's and maps for Sydney would love the geodata?

[pwarren]

hrm, this is an old thread, did anyone end up getting that SQL data from the OP? I've certainly got the skills and resources to do something probably useful with it (I'll try a PM and see how I go).

I've a few POI files that I have compiled, you aught to be able to find them at:

http://pjphotos.homelinux.org/mapthis

Hope that helps!