converting poi to navman format

gadgetkeith · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 10

hi there im new to this forum as you can see . i have looked and read loads of posts on here and im getting realy frustrated in trying to convert the poi that are in tomtom format to my navman . i here all you guys and gals say that its easy and im sure it is when you have done it once but im not sure if im using the right converter im using the larger of the two on the richard davis site as ive seen people say in earlier posts.i keep getting error messages ,i think i got close once and got an error when pushing data to device. please can someone explain this in laymans terms .so i and i hope many others will better understand the proccess. thankyou .keith

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

If you download ov2tools from TomTom's site here you will have a tool called dumpov2.exe in the .zip file.

If, in Windows Explorer, you drag an .ov2 file to Dumpov2 it will create a Text file with ASC file extension.

Open the .asc file in Notepad, and remove the first rows of header text to the rows of co-ordinates. Also remove the 'excess' text at the end of the file.

Click the 'Save' icon and close Notepad.

In Explorer rename the file ext from .asc to .csv and hit Enter twice.

This will then inport into Navman.

I use ov2tools because they can handle very large POI's.
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gadgetkeith · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 10

thankyou oldboy i will try that and let you know how i get on cheers keith

Tim Buxton · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

In fact you don't even need to change the file extension, as the Navman POIEditor can use .asc files as well as .csv ones.

My preferred method is to use Oldie's POIConverter though, as there is less editing to do. All that is required is to add a semi-colon to the beginning of the line containing the header info.

The critical thing is to use Notepad and not Excel. Has anyone else ever mentioned this? Laughing

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Simon1 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

If you read this guide to loading Safety Cameras, the principle applies to all POI's.

It also mentions Notepad.
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