Settings for camera warnings - split topic

EricWB · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 310

MOD EDIT - Split from New map - cant get cams to show... as two conversations were going on at once. GerryC

From GerryC's reply is it correct to assume the GPS camera warnings are within the POI.dat file?

If so does anyone have a method of finding them so they could be copied and pasted from one POI.dat file into another another one in the other map folders?

Its just a thought as there are quite a few TT owners (me included) who may have one or more maps on their device and setting up the cameras can take quite awhile to get it done correctly.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:22 am Post subject:

The POI.dat file is the TomTom POI file and nothing to do with the warnings.

The PGPSW Warnings are set up and stored in mapsettings.cfg but i don't recommend copying it from one map to another as i believe it holds other map specific information which will result in a) transfering incorrect data to another map and b) will overwrite the map specific data on the other map.

Unfortunately there is no short cut to setting up the alerts with a new map.

EricWB · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 310

The reason I thought the camera warnings maybe in the POI.dat file was that in the past downloading a map update would remove the users Favourites that are stored in the mapsettings.cfg file. It was suggested by some on the forum that the map update process removed the mapsettings.cfg file and replaced it with a new one to match the map.

Whilst there may have been a basis to this reasoning because the Favourites were definitely removed I don't recall ever loosing the camera warnings but stand to be corrected by those that know better (I have only subsribed to the GPS warnings for a few months). This means that if a new mapsettings.cfg file was created at update then some data from the old file was copied to it to retain the warnings.

The latest map update process seems to retain all of the existing data in the mapsettings.cfg file as I did not loose my favourites on this occasion and had no need to copy the old one over as I have done in the past. Perhaps as things progress TT take notice of users problems upon this forum and try to correct them, perhaps that's why a new version of Home was issued a short while before the maps?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

Whereas i have installed 2 previous maps and had no problems with loosing alerts etc but on this map with the new TT Home i suffered the reboot loop until i deleted the mapsettings.cfg file.

I'm assuming the alerts are stored in mapsettings.cfg because one way of restoring "lost" alerts is to restore the mapsettings.cfg file from a backup (assuming the file was backed up AFTER you set up the alerts)

GerryC · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:03 am Post subject:

The last time I updated, my favourites and warnings were brought across to the new map but this time I got the continuously reboot problem. In the past it's been a gamble as to what would work or not.

I wouldn't count on anything definitely happening or not next time. Your past experiences will count for nothing in the future. Mad

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EricWB · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 310

I have just done what many users of this forum never do and read the instructions for installing and using GPS camera warnings.

Each map folder must have the appropriate .ov2 and .bmp records installed as provided by the weekly updates. Then optionally if you want the voice warnings the .ogg files as well.

Now back to my original query because the warnings for the cameras are setup in the POI.dat file as described elsewhere in this forum has anyone found a method of extracting them from the POI.dat file in one map folder to the similar file in another map folder?

GerryC · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject:

EricWB has posted the following in the old thread....

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject:

In short:

poi.dat - the data for ALL the built-in POI categories.

xyz.ov2 - the data for a specific single user-added POI category (called xyz in this example)

MapSettings.cfg - your Favourites, POI warning settings, Home Location, Recent Destinations etc.

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