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DennyL Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: Navigator v5 on a Palm T3 - Some POIs Don't Appear |
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I recently added some POIs to the UK maps directory on my Palm T3, and when I go to 'Change Preference:Manage POI:Enable/Disable POI' the category doesn't appear in the list.
I have stacks of working POIs in my Navigator including PGPSW speed cams, some of them getting quite old. Last week I downloaded some POIs from this site, and it seems that many of them don't work for me.
As a specific example I downloaded waitrose.ov2 and waitrose.bmp and copied them to the Navigator UK map directory along with many other .OV2s and .BMPs that work, but when I go to enable the waitrose category it doesn't appear in the list.
I've tried viewing categories that work and don't work in a Hex viewer, but that didn't tell me anything. I tried converting waitrose .ov2 to Garmin delimited .CSV and then back to Tomtom .ov2 using the POIEdit converter, but they still don't show up (I note that when I convert away and back the two ov2s are not identical in a hex viewer.)
Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you for any suggestions. |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Navigator v5 on a Palm T3 - Some POIs Don't Appear |
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DennyL wrote: | I have stacks of working POIs in my Navigator including PGPSW speed cams, some of them getting quite old. Last week I downloaded some POIs from this site, and it seems that many of them don't work for me. |
And therein lies the problem I'm afraid, it's the number of POIs you have installed that is the issue. Each version of TomTom has a finite upper limit on the number of POIs that can be installed. When you breach that limit it will then start randomly dropping POIs.
IIRC v5 had a limit of about 40 categories, how many have you installed? _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: Navigator v5 on a Palm T3 - Some POIs Don't Appear |
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DennyL wrote: | Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? | It's not so much what you're doing wrong, as the limitation that the V5 software places on how many Custom POI Categories you can install.
There is a limit of 39 IIRC. Do a quick count of how many OV2 Files you have in the Map Folder.
You might have to remove a few that you don't use much. _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1140 |
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DennyL Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much, Oldboy.
I knew there was a maximum, but I thought it was in the 80s.
I've reduced the number of POIs and now they work.
Last edited by DennyL on Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:37 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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What am I, invisible ? _________________ Darren Griffin |
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DennyL Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, Darren, not you're not invisible. You advice was spot-on. Thank you. |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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I was just kidding, I'm not full of my own self-importance honestly _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Darren wrote: | What am I, invisible ? | Well you have lost some weight.
Doing better than you thought, eh!! _________________ Richard
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