ACD Google Earth Directory

1person · Post by **1person** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 12:21 pm

I made a google earth file using the ACD site. I listed all the coffeeshops on the main ACD site. I used the comments from the ACD site, but I cited my source, on each entry. I hope this OK. I also I used the weed icon from the entry page.

The file also has a few restraunts and clubs that are popular on the message boards.

Here is a link

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded ... e/0#621716

USbongLord · Post by **USbongLord** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 01:36 pm

hey man thats beautiful ...il throw that on my laptop just incase my gps fails...im gonna be using a tom tom gps..ive loaded all the coffeeshops into it...should make life easy,harleem and delft too...if any one else has a tom tom lemme kno..it says we can link and i can send the poi file to ya...have a great day

Twitch · Post by **Twitch** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 03:11 pm

Very cool. I have also been playing with it and have marked the apartment and many of the c.s. Your's has much more info. What I need to do is put it actual address of more of the shops. Thanks for posting that.

Twitch · Post by **Twitch** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 05:43 pm

I noticed that my things are also showing on there. How did that happen, was it because I saved changes when goofle asked?

jim and sonja · Post by **jim and sonja** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 07:13 pm

How cool is that.

LeviInAtl · Post by **LeviInAtl** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 07:47 pm

Hey im having trouble getting the file...everytime i try to download it, it opens directly in notepad...any suggestions?

mazdog · Post by **mazdog** » Mon 2nd Oct 2006 09:36 pm

you need a copy of Google Earth installed on your PC

I think there is a free version, if not there are multiple 'Pro' versions readily available on BitTorrent.

1person · Post by **1person** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:43 am

LeviInAtl
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:
Hey im having trouble getting the file...everytime i try to download it, it opens directly in notepad...any suggestions?

if you already have google earth installed right click on it and choose 'open with...' and then choose google earth

Twitch
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: 1person
I noticed that my things are also showing on there. How did that happen, was it because I saved changes when goofle asked?

On the left side of the screen there is a scroll box, you can check and uncheck the things you want to display, after you add somthing on your own it puts it over there in that box until you delete it.

711 · Post by **711** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:57 am

Heh. I tried the same this about 4 months ago.

https://www.coffeeshopdirect.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1473

And yours doesn't seem to be totally complete. =P I only count about 75 shops (this is still a good enough list for just about anybody), and there's closer to 400. I got to around 150+ plotted before my power supply malfunctioned and fried my hard drive.

But I have to ask you, did you manually plot the points? And if so, where did you locate a complete and accuracte city plan? If not, where did you get the geocoding data? I've been unable to find either a reliabe city plan map to use as a layover, or any geocoding data to convert the addresses to global positions.

Feel free to pm me if you're interested in possibly working together to fill in all the missing shops? I have a complete csv and html file of the directory, so that's half the work right there. I've just been lacking the resources to plot them all efficiently. (The city plan I was using was awful... atlas.amsterdam.nl ... took ages to use)

1person · Post by **1person** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:18 pm

I just copied and pasted the street address in to the fly to bar. It wll put a place mark right there. I noticed some of the places were off of where they should be (like central and picasso) so I moved them to where they should be manually. There are probably some others that I dont know that they are in the wrong spots.

Doog · Post by **Doog** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:33 pm

USBONGLORD wrote:hey man thats beautiful ...il throw that on my laptop just incase my gps fails...im gonna be using a tom tom gps..ive loaded all the coffeeshops into it...should make life easy,harleem and delft too...if any one else has a tom tom lemme kno..it says we can link and i can send the poi file to ya...have a great day

I have to say that is a stroke of genius, and I'm sure you can get TomTom for most of the modern mobile phones these days.

I recently transferred the standard map on the ACD site to my phone and I can zoom in so it's nice and easy to read. I thought that was a pretty clever idea.

However, the TomTom simply blows it right out of the water.

dblair1969 · Post by **dblair1969** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:42 pm

Doog, please explain how to put the map on phone... Just got the new chocolate and it has a great screen. This would be a great way to get Un-Lost. Thanks

Doog · Post by **Doog** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:51 pm

Certainly

All I did was firstly save the map on my PC then transferred the file from the PC to the phone using Bluetooth. You could use a data USB cable or infrared also I'm sure.

Simple as that.

dblair1969 · Post by **dblair1969** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 06:55 pm

Since I don't have any cables. I'll try saving to hard drive, then uploading to my Verizon picture website then transfe to phone. hope I don't lose any quality. hum.... thanks for the info....

Tall Guy · Post by **Tall Guy** » Tue 3rd Oct 2006 08:16 pm

Straight from hard drive to phone, surely?

Doog - that is a bloody brilliant idea mate, thanks.