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bendandthrow Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 7
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: Icons on i3 |
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I'm a complete newbie, so apologies if this is a stupid question. I know the POIs have icons associated with them. How do I make those icons display? ie if I want to find the best petrol station, how do I make the icon for petrol stations show up on the map so I can choose the next one on my route, rather than the nearest which may be in the wrong direction?
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Nickwolf Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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Basically you can't.
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kev3 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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i want my i3 to show all my custom poi on route, is there no way to do this?
cant you set up proximatey alerts like with the speed cameras for all my custom poi? |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15225 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:09 am Post subject: |
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kev3 wrote: | i want my i3 to show all my custom poi on route, is there no way to do this?
cant you set up proximatey alerts like with the speed cameras for all my custom poi? |
yes, but if you drive through a city centre there will be a LOT of bonging
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kev3 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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i would like to test this out may be just on all Nandos
how would i go about doing this?
do i have to use GPX Converter? as the manual import doesnt work properly?
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oddsock Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: May 01, 2004 Posts: 706 Location: Monmouthshire
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: |
yes, but if you drive through a city centre there will be a LOT of bonging
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OK! So which Sky channel is showing a re-run of Allo Allo
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15225 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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kev3 wrote: | i would like to test this out may be just on all Nandos
how would i go about doing this?
do i have to use GPX Converter? as the manual import doesnt work properly?
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the manual import does work for just distance based proximity alerts. the only problems are when you have a speed proximity alert then poi loader uses it's default distances
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bendandthrow Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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As a follow up to my original question...
If I can't make the i3 show an icon on my current map view for all instances of a particular type of POI then what use are the icons? What am I missing?
I know that when I approach a cluster of speed cameras, and am over the speed limit, I will see 1 or more camera icons (very useful!). I presume this is because there is some parameter in their configuration which means they are displayed when the proximity alert option is selected.
Does this mean that I could, if I wanted to, modify my other POIs so that they would also be displayed whenever I was within their defined proximity radius? ie could I modify my Fuel POI to appear whenever I pass within 1 mile? If so, could I make the icon appear without the audible bong?
If I did make this change what would happen when I download the next update of the POIs from this site? Would my changes be overwritten and have to be reinput? |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15225 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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bendandthrow wrote: |
Does this mean that I could, if I wanted to, modify my other POIs so that they would also be displayed whenever I was within their defined proximity radius? ie could I modify my Fuel POI to appear whenever I pass within 1 mile? If so, could I make the icon appear without the audible bong?
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you wouldn't need to modify the poi's. only the settings when you upload in manual mode.
however, you would get a 'bong' every second or so for every poi that you are within the radius.
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kev3 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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will manually importing my poi and editing proximity alerts mess up my modified speed camera gpx files which are in the same folder?
i mean how do you do it?
many thanks for you expert advice! |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15225 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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kev, you change proximity settings on an individual file-by-file basis so unless you change settings for the gpx files then they won't be affected - just put the gpx speed cam files on as speed alert.
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eddie7 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: poi alerts |
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Having also just purchased an i3 i have only used it for a day now,i have installed the speed camera database and some custom poi's but the only warning i seem to get is a speed warning on 30mph roads,i followed a thread on this site and converted the speed camera files to gpx format then used poi loader to install them,can someone please tell me where i might have gone wrong,also this might be in the wrong place and i appologise if it is |
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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: |
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You only get warning if you are speeding when you approach Speed Cameras. |
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eddie7 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: pio alerts |
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ok,i can appreciate that,but what about if i want to know where my nearest garage or burger king is?can i not get alerts for theese as well? |
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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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You can put you'll then you'll be alerted all the time you are in the Proximity Area. It gets very tedious after about half an hour....
Just use the POI Loader to edit the Proximity settings under Manual mode. |
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