Point of interest
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A Point of Interest, or POI, is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting. An example is a point on the Earth representing the location of the Space Needle, or a point on Mars representing the location of the mountain, Olympus Mons.
The term is widely used in Cartography, especially in electronic variants including GIS, and GPS navigation software. In this area the location of this point is called a waypoint.
[edit] External links
- POI Directory, POI download zone with free POI updates, POI tools and maps
- Poi2Go, used to create POI data
- GpsPasSion forums, message board for sharing POI's
- PoiEditor, on-line POI editor / viewer / converter (e.g. TomTom to Garmin formats)
- PoiEdit, POI editor / viewer / converter for Windows (supports e.g. TomTom, Garmin, Google Earth, Navman and Mio formats)
- POI Factory - USA, free POI files for over a million US locations
- POI66, creating POI's by sending an SMS message containing the waypoint coordinates
