Using Whereis GPS Coordinates
Submitted: Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 21:36
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Glenno
Hi,
Ive noticed that on the whereis website you can get street level directions from one location to another.
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to extract the coordinates for each step out of the webpage so they could be imported into a GPS or Ozi?
When you highlight each step on the webpage the link refers to a GPS coordinate of the change in direction, ie turn left into X, '-27.45345','152.95093', so I assume it just needs someone with half a clue of how to read web pages to strip out this information.
For those people like me without the proper car navigation equipment, this would be a damm good alternative.
Cheers,
Glenn.
Reply By: The Explorer - Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 21:52
Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 21:52
No dout it is possible but read the last sentence of this..........
Terms and condition of use - LEGAL -
This website and the data contained in it are supplied solely for informational use. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this website may be reproduced or re-used for any purpose whatsoever without the written permission of Sensis. However, users may download individual maps for their own private use in the course of the normal use of this site for information and locational purposes. Users must not, whether through the use of additional software or otherwise, data
mine or conduct automated searches on this site or the data contained in it.
Cheers
Greg
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Follow Up By: Mike DiD - Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:02
Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:02
"users may download individual maps for their own private use in the course of the normal use of this site for information and locational purposes."
- and downloading gps co-ordinates for a route will fall in the same category.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:54
Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:54
"and downloading gps co-ordinates for a route will fall in the same category"..you assume - Not sure how you came to this conclusion - a map and co-ordinates are (while obviously related) two completely different things...anyway I do not honestly know if doing what Glenn suggested would be legal or not - I was just pointing out that, to me, it appears to be something the Whereis crew may not like and would considered stealing. At a guess if Whereis wanted you to do it they could simply provide the service (which again suggests they are not keen on it).
My suggestion to Glenn is email Whereis and ask them if they could provide a function that downloads the map and coords for each turn of proposed routes. Also ask if they would consider it illegal to create a program that strips the coordinate data out to save writing it down manually. This is the only way to find out for sure - we could discuss it forever.
One other solution would be to purchase a suitable gadget and route planning software and away you go. This would also benifit the industry (albiet in a small way) and provide opportunity for it to advance and provide even better solutions to navigation in the future.
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Greg
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Reply By: Member - Royce- Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 23:28
Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 at 23:28
I'm about to buy a Navman iCN520 for the supatrupa... sensis whereis is the basis of the program supplied. I don't think they would want you to download the lot from the website... if it were possible.
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Follow Up By: Mike DiD - Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:04
Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:04
Greg asked "Does anyone know if there is an easy way to extract the coordinates for each step "
- not to download the database of every turn in Australia
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Reply By: DOM13QK - Thursday, Aug 25, 2005 at 21:18
Thursday, Aug 25, 2005 at 21:18
It's very possible to get the GPS coordinates from the whereis page.
If you've got MS Access, you can find a slash-up access project that can get points into a database, and output them to a google earth track.
Find it here for the next few weeks.
Save the whereis file as html, use the whereis input option. If you have google earth, you'll get the waypoints and connecting path.
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