TT 910 - What can I do with it?

Satnavnewbie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 21, 2006 Posts: 2

Bought from PCWorld recently. Used it for getting from A to B - great. But what else can I do with it? It bleeps to let me know when there are fixed speed cameras around, can I get it to find mobile units as well?

Thanks SNN

TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

The tomtom speed camera database does not contain mobile cameras. IMO it's best to ditch that and use the pocketgpsworld one which is far more accurate.

RDS · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 242

A quick read of the TomTom 910 manual will give you a pretty good idea what else it will do other than just navigating.

mikealder · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

SNN, please have a read through THIS which details the installation / configuration of the PocketGPSWorld database on the 910 - if you are unsure it explains the set-up.

Before you do anything with the unit please make sure you do perform a FULL DAY ONE back up and include everything, do not be tempted to leave out any files/ folders, this will take about 50 Mins but it is the only back-up of data you will have - Mike

ColinS · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

Satnavnewbie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 21, 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks everyone, I'll go through all your suggestions.

SNN

TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

ColinS · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

Nice one Tony. I have my TomTom subscription now but will certainly look at the pgpsw one when it expires. I do like the ease with which the TomTom updates install through Home. Do you find the pgpsw ones difficult to update or is it a breeze?

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TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

Easy... open zip file, drop .bmp and .ov2 files into map directory.

The hard bit is adding sounds/voices to it, but you'd have that with the TT ones anyway. There's some spoken voices you can add by replacing data.chk or if you have a 910 then it's just a matter of coming up with a suitable phrase and letting the TTS handle it. That's just a one-time thing.

My one niggle at the moment is the PGPSW RSS feed doesn't work so we don't know precisely when they release the new database..

MikeB · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:12 am Post subject:

TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

The feed is simply invalid - it won't work in any conforming RSS reader. It's missing some essential tags.

It doesn't work in firefox.. that's a *very* strict reader - won't even work with half the blogspot feeds which is why I abandoned it for a better one.

TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

btw. how are you adding it to firefox? The page with the feed icon isn't structured such that FF actually recognises there's a feed on it.. you have to go to another feed, add that, then go back and edit it to paste the PGPSW feed in.. then it simply says 'unable to load feed' as expected (FF will break even if you use something like a single quote in the feed... completely broken structure has no chance).

Unless they've improved it in the nightly drops of course.. but no current version will touch it.

TonyHoyle · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 135

Yay! It just started working... it even (almost) validates through feedvalidator (I think the one issue it has is merely a warning).

Thanks for that.

MikeB · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject:

I have cut down a lot of what was placed into the feed from the database. The text with the release may now be a bit terse, but should pass more checks.

I was using Wizz RSS 2.1.2 with no problems and Newsgator again with no issues.

The *Warning* shown in feedvalidator is because we have not included a guid which we cant as there is not one applicable to this feed.
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