On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:10:25 -0000, Ron Jones wrote: >Mack, David wrote: >> Anne Coleman asked: >> >>> Does anyone know where there are handy co-ops to the canals? >> >> There are Co-op supermarkets in Hebden Bridge and Littleborough and a >> smaller open-all-hours Co-op convenience store in Mytholmroyd. All >> are close to the Rochdale Canal. > >As an aside. I got a Tomtom One for Xmas. It was very easy to find a free >list of supermarkets on the 'net to install in a trice. >I now have Aldi, Asda, Budgens,Carrefour, Coop_CH, Coop, Cooperativem >Decathlon, Iceland, Kwiksave, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Netto, Nettorama, >Safeway, Sainsburys, Somerfield, Spar, Tesco, Tesco_Express, ToysRus, >Waitrose, Wal_Mart, + others. > >Of course there may be some missing and some data a bit old (Safeway!), but >I'll be taking it on the boat with me! Battery life is 2 hours off line - >plenty time to walk to store and back (and it shows the quickest way!) > >That will now start a long discussion on GPSs again... ;-)
I've been using these in Canalplan. Not this full set yet - I've been more interested in getting the code working. The developmental version of the gazetteer (currently at http://www2.mihalis.net/canal/cgi-bin/newgaz.cgi) uses them a lot more - you can say things like "find the nearest supermarket of any sort within half a mile of the canal and on a place within 10 miles cruising from here". And people can add their own finds as well. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon
