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Originally Posted by vince59it
In this case, you'll have - at least - a beer paid by me in Rome! 
Well this would really be a good support from you. I would really not only me I guess - appreciate such a simple way to convert POIs data into .idx and .url. I am not an expert in PC but I would really like to understand how the conversion works. I've been playing with files asc/csv/idx and so on and it seem they are "only a list"..but how can I compile the list???? |
How does it work?
The IDX and URL files have a simple structured format. The format is quite easy to figure out if you use a hex editor.
The IDX is an index file and contains only the POI ID number with the lat/long, expressed in a POSWGS notation, and the POI name. The data is sorted by longitude and if there are many POIs it is also indexed in blocks for fast searching.
The IDX file is used to show the POI locations on the map, and shows the name in the search results.
The URL file contains the details of the POIs, such as name, village, city, street, house number, phone number, brand name, name-starts-with, importance, entry-position, and any other attributes you may care to add. Whatever attributes you have in the file can be then used in the HTML file that displays the POI data.
You can store strings, integers, boolean, and probably other types.
The info is unlimited, just use your imagination as to what you wish to store in the URL file.
The URL file is used to show the detailed POI info about a POI when it has been selected after a search.
02-24-2010, 05:57 PM
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