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Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10644 Location: Suffolk, UK
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:
I'm assumimg you downloaded the TT Home Camera File(s).
If I'm right you don't personally take the DB out of the Files. You get HOME to do it for you.
You have to copy the 2 Files, a CAB and TOC File to the Folder specified in HOME. It's usually Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\TomTom\HOME\Content.
You can change the location of the Folder if you want to. See File | Preferences | Advanced.
HOME will then install it correctly for you.;) _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1145
Don't know the nuvi very well but if its anything like all the other systems the answer is yes! you should be able to browse the map and see cameras but it may depend on how the device or the poi veiw distances are set to.
Find a good speed camera location you know about and zoom right in. If there is a camera there, this is good news. :D
I'm assuming this goes some way to answering your other question too.
to the forum. _________________ Dom
HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
Navigon 7310/iPhone Navigon&Copilot
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:55 am Post subject:
You'd be best posting this in the Garmin forums as IIRC the Garm in units handle Speed Cam POIs differently to other devices. _________________ Darren Griffin
I have just bought an RAC SatNav110 and don't think it has any safety speed camera poi category. I have just read the information on camera information on this site and wonder if the poi category of Redlight is a camera warning? Also there is another category of section speed with a black line and a black blob on top of the line next to the red warning circle, could this be another camera warning? The manual is absolutely crap and gives nothing away.
My pc does not recognise my unit or memory card so I don't know how to update the information.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Beginner’s guide to the PocketGPSWorld camera database
Privateer wrote:
Introduction
This is not intended as an instruction on how to use the PocketGPSWorld (PGPSW) camera database with your SatNav set-up. It is purely an explanation of the camera database, how it’s spilt up into camera types (categories) and subcategories, and the files that make up the database.
Camera types in the database
There are currently six main categories in the PGPSW camera database; some of the main categories are also subdivided into speed related sites. The main categories are:
Gatso: Fixed camera locations. I.e. mainly Gatso, Truvelo, and Monitron speed cameras.
Mobile: Locations where Safety Partnership camera vans and police regularly check your speed.
Redlight: Traffic light cameras
Temp: Temporary camera installations, e.g. Road works.
SPECS: Also called Section cameras. This uses digital cameras that photograph your vehicle and number plate as you pass each camera. The system then automatically calculates your average speed over the section (distance divided by time).
Continental: Locations on the continent, i.e. mainland Europe.
There is another category, which contains all of the above categories, except for the Continental one. It is for UK users who have SatNav systems that can only use a limited number of POI categories at time. The category is:
Single File Version
Subcategories: speed-zoned
The categories Gatso, Mobile, and SPECS are also available as being further split into speed-zoned subcategories.
The main categories hold the full list of locations.
The subcategories have the same name as the main category but they have a suffix of the speed limit and only contain the locations that relate to a particular speed limit. NB if you want to use the subcategories then you need to load and activate all of them else you will not be warned!
Gatso: Full list of known fixed speed cameras. You can either use this or all of the following subcategories:
Gatso_20: Known fixed speed cameras in a 20 mph limit
Gatso_30: Known fixed speed cameras in a 30 mph limit
Gatso_40: Known fixed speed cameras in a 40 mph limit
Gatso_50: Known fixed speed cameras in a 40 mph limit
Gatso_60: Known fixed speed cameras in a 60 mph limit
Gatso_70: Known fixed speed cameras in a 70 mph limit
Gatso_tba: Known fixed speed cameras without a recorded speed limit.
Gatso_var: Known fixed speed cameras with a variable speed limit.
The Mobile and SPECS categories can also be split into subcategories, like the Gatso ones above. However neither Mobile nor SPECS yet has a "var" subcategory.
Which SatNav packages can use the camera database?
The PGPSW camera database was originally created for use with TomTom Navigator 1.5 for the PocketPC. Subsequent versions of TomTom Navigator for the PPC can use the database as can current versions of: TomTom Go; TomTom Mobile; and TomTom on the Palm. All TomTom products use the .OV2 version of the database.
Other SatNav packages have started to accept custom POIs. You can now use the PGPSW camera database on the current versions of NavMan, CoPilot, and Destinator products. Most, if not all, non-TomTom products use the .CSV version of the database. However a number of non-TomTom products are now able to use the TomTom .ov2 files.
Makeup of the camera database files
Each category or subcategory of the PGPSW camera database is an independent POI (Point of Interest) and may be made up of two files:
1. The actual database (compulsory for all packages):
.OV2 for TomTom, .CSV or .XLS for non-TomTom
2. The icon (.BMP) to show the camera location on the screen.
Needed for TomTom, other packages may not require it.
If you wanted to load the PGPSW camera database of UK fixed cameras in a 30 mph speed limit, then you would need the following files:
For TomTom SatNav packages
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp
For ALK CoPilot SatNav packages, up to version 5
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.xls
For ALK CoPilot SatNav packages, version 6 onwards
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
For Navman SmartST V3 SatNav packages
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.csv
For Microsoft AutoRoute / MapPoint
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.csv
For ease of reading, we'll no longer use the File extensions (i.e. .OV2, .CSV, or .BMP) in this documentation. Please remember that depending on your SatNav package, you will either need the .OV2 and .BMP files, or you will need the .CSV and .BMP files. Thus the above example of UK fixed cameras in a 30 mph speed limit will now be referred to as:
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30
What PGPSW camera database categories do I need?
Well it is down to personal choice and the limitations of your SatNav package. If you were to stay in the UK there are 3 levels of options:
Option 1 (single file POI)
As stated above, this category contains all of the above categories, except for the Continental one. It is for UK users who have SatNav systems that can only use a limited number of POI categories at time:
pocketgps_uk_sc
Option 2 (5 main categories)
This is just the main categories and none of the subcategories that show speed limits:
Option 3 (24 files comprising of both main and sub categories)
If you want the above but with subcategories of the Gatso, Mobile, and SPECS databases to show speed related cameras:
There are almost an endless amount of combinations of the above. Please don't forget that:
1. You can use a combination of speed-zoned sub-categories of one type with non-speed-zoned categories of another type, i.e. speed-zoned Gatso and Mobile with non-speed-zoned SPECS.
2. If you use speed-zoned sub categories use all of the sub categories (else you won’t get warnings for every site) and don't use the full category with the sub-categories (else you will get duplicate warnings).
Where do I find the PGPSW camera database? (Edited by robbrady: Sorry, POIEdit is not currently supported - this may be just a temporary situation.)
The best way, if your set-up allows, is to use the PoiEdit program to use the PocketGPSWorld POI-Sync service. Once set up, you just connect your system to the computer and run the program to update all the categories of the camera database – and any other POIs that you use from the PocketGPSWorld POI download section.
Alternatively, you can download the zipped file and manually copy the required categories to you SatNav system. If you wish to use speed-zoned categories then you will need to look in different folders in the zip file, they are in the "speed zoned" folder and then the "gatso", "mobile", "specs" sub-folders depending on your requirements.
Miscellaneous information
The camera database was set up, in the beginning, only for fixed site cameras (e.g. Gatso, Truvelo, etc) and was originally called pocketgps_uk_sc, which is why you may see reference to the pocketgps_uk_sc file in some documentation on this website.
Some of the camera identification numbers are suffixed with the "@" sign and a number (e.g. 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70). This indicates the speed limit for that camera. NB speed limits can change, so please let us know if you find that the recorded speed limit for any camera in the PocketGPSWorld database is wrong.
This post is a "living document" and thus will be updated as and when necessary. Links to other guides will appear in the future, i.e. guides about installing the PGPSW camera database, and using it with specific SatNav packages.
Posts in this thread may be deleted, so as to keep the thread as short as possible. However relevant suggestions or questions (and their answers) will be added to this post.
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: AY-TO-BE
Hi
Please can someone help, I got one from Maplins,it uses Tele Atlas Maps when I asked about camera locations they told me to subscrbe to this site whitch I have.
Can you tell me how to do this?
Many thanks
Colin
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:
Colin, Have a read through This Thread, the general thoughts are that the device as supplied does not allow custom POI, some site users have installed TomTom to the hardware and got it working, but thats additional cost just to get speed camera warnings - Mike
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