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Kavg Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: United Kingdom.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject: Postcode To ov2 |
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Hi All.
Is there an easy way to convert a file with Postcodes to an ov2 file for POI's
I have a CSV file that looks like this:
Postcode, Name
mk13 4gp, Location2
ub12 3xr, Location3
dh24 3sq, Location4
etc..
etc..
I could easly add a few Postcodes as POI's in my tomtom500, but I have a very long list of postcodes that i want to convert into POI's.
Anybody have any ideas??
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:15 am Post subject: |
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yes, but none of them are legal any more. You'll have to do it one by one. _________________ Lutz
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:42 am Post subject: |
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You need 3 fields (columns) in your .csv file.
Latitude , Logitude , Text
-1.23456,52,34567,"MK134JP"
To make it readable pad either side of the commas with spaces.
Make sure that there are no headers on the file and use Makeov2 to convert to an .ov2 file.
You can download TomTom's ov2tools from http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/oldboy/TomTomTools/ov2tools.zip _________________ Richard
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: |
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lbendlin wrote: | yes, but none of them are legal any more. You'll have to do it one by one. |
Lutz, it's not illegal to do it for your own use, only if you pass it on to others.
At least that is my understanding. _________________ Richard
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gingernut777 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Nov 03, 2004 Posts: 251 Location: Earth where else
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Oldboy wrote: | lbendlin wrote: | yes, but none of them are legal any more. You'll have to do it one by one. |
Lutz, it's not illegal to do it for your own use, only if you pass it on to others.
At least that is my understanding. |
As Oldboy says, it's ONLY illegal if you sell it. Why should it be illegal if it's for your OWN personal use.
You can't say everyone hasn't done something illegal at sometime in their life, how ever slight. _________________ Using an A to Z
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Kavg Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: United Kingdom.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Richard, Lutz,
Thanks for your replys.
Richard: That means that I have to convert each Postcode to a Lat. & Longi. co-ordinate, then use Makeov2 to convert.
Is there an easy way to convert from Postcode to co-ordinates? - I ask because converting a list of >180 postcodes by using "streetmap" or "multimap" manually, would be a nightmare.
Lutz : Yes I am planning it for personal use - Not for selling or commercial. So hope that is on the right side of the law.
> You can't say everyone hasn't done something illegal at
> sometime in their life, how ever slight.
Now I am sure a lot of us have "temporarily" loaded a copy of Windows on our machines, at one time or another, with the full intension of getting a Lic. copy.
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Oldie Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 22/11/2002 13:33:48 Posts: 992 Location: Surrey, UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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If you have Microsoft AutoRoute then import the CSV file, save the map and exit AutoRoute. You can then use my POIConverter program to read the map file (AXE) and write the pushpin data as a TomTom Overlay (OV2).
POIConverter can be downloaded from http://rjdavies.users.btopenworld.com/html/poiconverter.html
Another Richard _________________ Various TomToms, Garmin eTrex Legend, GPSMAP 60CSx, Oregon 550t, Forerunner 405 |
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Kavg Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: United Kingdom.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Richard (Oldie)
I'll give that a shot.
Cheers all,
:D
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