Either figure out the format and just write it out, or visit http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6675 and get a tool that will do the csv=>ov2 conversion and just write out the csv with ruby (and FasterCSV)
-Rob On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:46 AM, jef wrote: > > My problem is to make ov2 file. (tomtom file format). it's a binary > file. > > Any idea to do that in ruby? > > thanks > > On 25 jan, 21:25, Rob Biedenharn <r...@agileconsultingllc.com> wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2009, at 1:40 PM, jef wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi >> >>> I would like to make dynamic POI files for GPS software such tomtom >> >>> Have you ever heard about a "ror solution" to do that? >> >>> thanks >>> jef >> >> Well, not Rails, but just Ruby. I threw this together for my Garmin >> last year: >> >> http://gist.github.com/52513 >> >> poi.rb takes a file of addresses, geocodes them, and creates a .csv >> file >> >> poimerge.rb takes two POI .csv files and tries to identify duplicates >> and likely duplicates >> >> You might want to check outhttp://www.poi-factory.com/for a lot of >> general POI and GPSr resources. >> >> -Rob >> >> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com >> r...@agileconsultingllc.com > > Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com r...@agileconsultingllc.com +1 513-295-4739 Skype: rob.biedenharn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---