In anticipation of a
long road
trip, I searched the web for a list of Buell and Harley-Davidson Dealer
waypoints that I could load into my GPS.
Having found none, I decided to create them myself.
Available below are lists of all the
The impatient can download all of the Buell and Harley-Davidson files, including documentation, here. The individual Buell and Harley-Davidson files are available in two formats.
The buell.gpx and harley-davidson.gpx files can be loaded into just about any GPS unit with software like EasyGPS or GPSBabel. If your GPS unit supports comments, you will find they contain the Dealers phone number, a services key (see below), and the street address, in that order, separated by commas. Depending on how many characters your unit supports in the comment field, you may experience truncation.
The services key is an attempt to efficiently summarize a dealer’s services in as few characters as possible so that it will fit in the small comment field of GPS units that support them. This is important because you don’t want to have trouble on the road, ride to a location for help and then find out all they can offer you is a tee-shirt. The services key is a character string that uses one capitol letter to represent each service a dealer provides. This is summarized in the table below.
|
Key Letter |
||
|
Motorcycles |
H-D Motorcycles |
M |
|
Service |
Service |
S |
|
Apparel |
Motor Clothes Merchandise |
C |
|
Parts & Accessories |
Genuine Motor Accessories |
A |
|
|
Shop Online |
O |
|
|
H-D Authorized Rentals |
R |
|
Rider's Edge |
Rider's Edge |
E |
|
|
HOG Chapter |
H |
|
|
HOG Fly & Ride |
F |
|
|
Buell Motorcycles |
B |
|
BRAG Clubs |
BRAG Clubs |
U |
The services key string is 6 characters long in the Buell file because only the 6 services listed in the above table are available. The Harley-Davidson services key string is 11 characters long in the Harley-Davidson file. If a service is not available, a single dash appears as a placeholder for the missing service.
For example, a Buell
dealer
search on ”Liberty”
is represented with the services key string ‘MSCA-U’, with a dash
for the Rider's Edge service because
it’s not offered at Liberty Buell. This
makes the final comment appears as ‘732-381-2400,MSCA-U,12 West
A Harley-Davidson dealer search on ”Stone Mountain“ is represented with the services key string ‘MSCAO-EH-B-’, with dashes for the un-offered H-D Authorized Rentals, Rider's Edge and HOG Fly & Ride and BRAG Clubs services, so the final comment appears as ‘770-979-7999,MSCAO-EH-B-,2060 Ross Road’ in the Harley-Davidson file.
Using GPSBabel or GPS Visualizer the CSV files can be converted into a format that can be used with just about any GPS unit. They can also be easily imported into a spreadsheet or database.
The buell.csv file is a list of comma separated values, enclosed in quotes, with the following fields:
FIELD
NAME
DESCRIPTION
Business
ID
Unique numeric value
for each Dealer
Latitude
Latitude in signed
decimal format
Longitude
Longitude in signed
decimal format
Dealership
Name
obvious
Street
Street Address
City
obvious
State
State
Abbreviation
Zip
Code
obvious
Country
Country Abbreviation (‘
Phone
Phone number
Fax
Fax number
Email
obvious
(not all dealers have a email address)
URL
Dealership web
site (not all dealers have a web site)
Motorcycles
‘Y’ for Dealerships that sell
Buell motorcycles, empty otherwise
Service
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that service Buell motorcycles, empty otherwise
Apparel
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that sell Buell apparel, empty otherwise
Parts
& Accessories ‘Y’ for
Dealerships
that sell Buell Parts & Accessories, empty otherwise
Riders
Edge
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that have the Riders Edge riding course, empty otherwise
BRAG
Club
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that support a local BRAG riding Club, empty otherwise
The harley-davidson.csv file is a list of comma separated values, enclosed in quotes, with the following fields:
FIELD NAME
DESCRIPTION
Business ID
Unique
numeric value for each Dealer
Latitude
Latitude
in signed decimal format
Longitude
Longitude
in signed decimal format
Dealership Name
obvious
Street
Street
Address
City
obvious
State
State
Abbreviation
Zip Code
obvious
Country
Country
Abbreviation (‘
Phone
Phone
number
Fax
Fax
number
Email
obvious (not all dealers have a email
address)
URL
Dealership
web site (not all dealers have a web site)
HD Motorcycles
‘Y’
for Dealerships that sell Buell motorcycles, empty otherwise
Service
‘Y’
for Dealerships that service Buell motorcycles, empty otherwise
Motorcycle Clothes
‘Y’ for Dealerships that sell Buell
apparel, empty otherwise
Motor Accessories
‘Y’ for Dealerships that sell
Buell Parts & Accessories, empty otherwise
HD Road Store
‘Y’ for Dealerships that have
an Online Store, empty otherwise
Authorized Rentals
‘Y’ for Dealerships that rent Harley-Davidson
motorcycles (some rent Buell) , empty otherwise
Riders Edge
‘Y’
for Dealerships that have the Riders Edge riding course, empty otherwise
Hog Chapter
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that have a HOG chapter, empty otherwise
Fly and Ride
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that participate in the Fly and Ride program, empty otherwise
Buell
‘Y’ for
Dealerships that also sell Buell Motorcycles, empty otherwise
BRAG Clubs
‘Y’ for Dealerships
that support a local BRAG riding Club, empty otherwise
If you have any question or comments, or if you just want to let me know you found these files useful, you can contact me through my profile page on Bad Weather Bikers.