Not sure if this will interest anyone, but I wrote a small program to create a properly formatted POI text file. If you are interested in it, just shoot me an email stevedorries AT gmail DOT com
Create from what? What input does it take?
And what OS / what language etc?
I think there’s a few people on this thread that would be interested in it: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=6052
It’s written in C#, uses WinForms for a gui. I wrote it for mono, so it should run on MS-Windows