I know it's my fault, but ...

bbear2007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 14

Having owned a TT One before, and having just got a a 910, and having not clue one, I downloaded and tried POI Edit/Sync ...

I travel to France whenever I can, so wanted the Carrefour POI. Downloaded it, "installed" it (I think), and does it appear on my 910? No, it doesn't.

So, 2 questions; a) what am I doing wrong and b) is there a simple, burk-proof file on how to install POIs to a 910, coz some seem to have downloaded and taken, yet others do not.

Oh, and c) which French/Italian/Spanish POIs would you consider essential?

Many thanks.

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

Welcome to the forum, before you do anything else PLEASE ensure you have a full back-up of the 910 on your PC this is vital, there are a number of links to information on This Page which should answer some of your questions, read the speed camera installation guides as they are the same as any other POI file.
Bear in mind there is a limit of 100 custom POI files on your device, so have you exceeded this limit? - look in the Western Europe map folder and see how many files end with the extension .ov2 - Mike

RQ · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:15 am Post subject:

Hi

First thing make a backup by copying the contents of the 910 onto your computer using Windows explorer. Don't use HOME as it does not backup all files.

Using Windows Explorer can you see the Carrefour file (.ov2 and .bmp) in your map folder? The map folder will be called Western_Europe map or something similar.

In preferences have you enabled the poi?
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bbear2007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 14

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:13 am Post subject:

One other useful way to reduce the number of POI categories is to use the "Consolidate" option when downloading the POI files, for example Fuel - why have each petrol station installed by owner when a single file containing ALL the petrol stations works just as well - the same goes for ATM's I am not bothered who owns the ATM or which bank as long as I can get cash when needed - just a couple of simple examples - Mike

bbear2007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 14

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

You have this option on the POI Download page which can be found Here or if you want to concatenate a number of POI files you already have look at the PC software POIEdit which gives you an option to append POI files to create a single category - make sure when you save the files you create (or re-name) a bmp file to exactly match the .ov2 file otherwise you will end up with a Red Square instead of the icon - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

bbear2007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 14

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:30 am Post subject:

DO NOT "join together" (see the simple meaning for that big posh word - saves Dennis getting the dictionary out) the Speed Camera Files as you will indeed loose the speed information from the warnings, I was intending the use of Consolidate/ POIEdit to be for the other POI files you have say IKEA, Focus, B&Q etc could all be a single file - Mike

bbear2007 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 14

DennisN · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:03 am Post subject:

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