Sat Nav & GPS Blog

After several months of very hard work by a lot of people, we have finally launched our new web site, www.myPOIs.ie, which is entirely dedicated to points of interest (POIs) around Ireland.

The main purpose of the site is to address the woeful lack of POIs for Ireland available on Garmin and other brands of satellite navigation systems. We have collected POI data from a variety of sources and have spent a considerable amount of time verifying the locations using the latest geocoding techniques. While it is not possible to guarantee 100% accuracy – we are confident that a very high percentage of the locations are bang on.

Currently the site has 15,000 POIs, we have a further 10,000 to release in the coming months and more later in the year. POI databases include Road Safety & Camera information for the Republic and Northern Ireland, Industrial Estates, Hotels, Restaurants, Bank Branches & ATM locations, Pubs & Bars, Garda Stations, Post Offices, Shopping Centres, Pharmacies, Schools and so on. There is a long list! We are also working with a number of 3rd party data providers, such as the Georgina Campbell Guides, to offer sat nav users the very best in quality POI databases for Ireland under one roof.

A number of the POI databases are available free of charge to download to your sat nav (only Garmin GPS for now) and for others POI databases there is an annual subscription. While we would have liked to have offered everything for free, the reality is that to offer this level of quality and breadth of POI data, it is just not possible to do so without incurring significant costs in the time collecting and verifying the location data. This really is and has been a mammoth task.

What we have done though is to make the annual subscriptions charges as low as possible – our ‘Premium’ service which includes all our databases excluding the Road Safety Camera database is available for €37.00 per annum while our ‘Premium+’ service, which includes all POI databases + Road Safety Camera database, is available for €50.00 per annum. When you subscribe to any of the services you can download as often and as many times as you like – there are no constraints or limits.

For those of you who are considering purchasing a GPS from us or updating your current model there is an offer of €12 for the ‘Premium’ service and €25.00 for the ‘Premium+’ service for the first year.

Please get in touch with us if you want to find out more or if you would like to submit you own POI data or if you have any suggestions how we could improve the service. Thanks.

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