Navigon 2150 Max

bazelk · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 80

I have just bought the Navigon 2150 max from Halfords for a bargain price of £139 and as of yet I am more than pleased with it.

" it's worth pointing out that it includes the option to purchase 2 years map updates for only £15"

I did post a question on here prior to taking the plunge from my usual Garmin purchases as to whether I could add my own poi's (no replys) as this was going to be a deciding factor as to buy or not to buy, but couldn't resist the bargain price for such a high spec unit.

I did do a bit of searching the forum's about the poi warner prog which I believe is capable of installing the pgpsw speed camera's, but I cant work out if I can install poi categories IE tesco, asda, etc etc (downloaded from this site) and navigate to them direct from the search poi's option in the unit.

Any help/advise gratefully appreciated

BigPerk · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

Yes you can. PGPSW cameras, Tesco etc need to be in asc format for POI Warner - I downloaded PGPSW, Tesco etc specifying Navman as the target format on the PGPSW download page.

You can navigate to a POI (the way it does it is to create a "saved route" to the POI which you 'load' and 'start navigation')

A (slight) cautionary note - if the description field in the POI entries, such as the address, contains commas (eg "Tesco Express, High Street, PO51 7CD") then these need to be removed before loading onto the unit; otherwise you will only load the first bit of the description up to the first comma (location info (lat/long) will be ok). I have queried this with the POI Warner people who are 'looking into it'
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David
(Navigon 70 Live, Nuvi 360)

MikeS48 · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

You've done well there, Bazelk, I bought the 2150 Max as soon as V7 of POI Warner came out for it, just before Christmas, but I paid about £160 from memory, and it was extra to activate the Traffic module, plus I bought the map updates - but I still haven't managed to d/l an update yet!

I'm intrigued by BigPerk's comment about the format of the PGPSW download. I use the asc format, as stated, and copy them into the POI folder in the POI Warner program. I do this with my 2150 Max, my old 5110, which my wife uses, and Medion Navigator 4 on my O2 Orbit phone.

The POIs don't seem to work on the 2150 Max though, as soon as I re-insert the card and boot up, it imports the new POIs and converts them to .bak files. Is it supposed to do this?

In the old days I used to download the TomTom OV2 files and convert them to asc using POI Edit, but as soon as "native" asc files appeared on the site I skipped the OV2 route as it didn't seem necessary any more, and the asc files worked fine on MN4 and MN5 (needed different versions of POI Warner, of course - as does MN7).

So, BigPerk, what's all this about Navman? Is this the key to getting it to work on MN7? I must admit, I assumed that Other - ASC was the download to use, in the absence of anything specific to Navigon or POI Warner. I think we should be told...

BigPerk · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject:

I just struck on Navman as being an ascii download which seemed to work - I'll be interested to try Other-Native now I've found out about it Cool

Certainly on the 8110 asc files are converted to POI-Warner bak files - when you say the POIs don't work, in what way? Are you saying that the bak file on your Navigon is there but there is no data in it, or something else?
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David
(Navigon 70 Live, Nuvi 360)

bazelk · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 80

Still none the wiser then as Bigperk, you say yes and mikeS48 you say you couldn't get them to work on the 2150Max? (has Navigon blocked some thing in the 2150 max to stop it working)

MikeS48.
How do you get on with the unit?
I was a bit unsure about moving from my trusted Garmin C510t (hacked with TTS) which I was going to replace with the Garmin 765T until I received the normal email promo's from Halfords with the offer of the Navigon 2150 max boldly displayed at £139, so went down to my local store and was surprised at the quality of the unit and what it could do (features).
Along with the fact that it had traffic and safety cameras pre installed made it a bit less of a gamble,"not forgetting the 2 year map update offer for only £15".
I have to say that having used it for about a week now the way it presents/displays/announces the route is far Superior than the Garmin.

But getting back on topic you would think that in this day and age Navigon who claim to be the 4th largest in the sat nav world would have there own poi loader like the market leaders (Tom Tom, Garmin).

So could anybody enlighten me further, like does poi warner display icons on the map, doe's it create a list of your installed poi's like Garmin,s do so I can scroll through then navigate to, any help/info appreciated.

Confused

BigPerk · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

Your specific questions about POI-Warner:

- unfortunately it does not show the POIs actually placed on the map (as it apparently does in earlier versions); they say this is because Navigon have not released details of the interface they would need. What they do is to show a distance display on the side of the screen with the icon of the POI shown, and a countdown of the approach. I find this is quite effective for the PGPSW cameras, but no use for seeing what pubs, garages, etc there are 'in the area'. However,

- POI-Warner does allow you to ask what POIs of a particular category there are within a specified number of miles of a location and gives you a list, by distance, where you can choose one to navigate to. (It will show you the complete list, if you want it).

More generally, you can load in any 3rd party POIs which you specify in asc format, so (just for example) all the PGPSW cameras and other POIs, as well as those from MaFt from this site after converting from Garmin format, POIHandler POIs if you like them, and I have loaded the CAMRA pub guide list.

Be glad to answer any other questions you may have on POI-Warner (where I can!). You can also get a rough idea of the facilities by doing the 'quick tour' on their website. And if this link works

ready-brek · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 7

I bought one of these online from Halfords a couple of weeks ago. Apart from the fact that they failed to deliver within 4 working days as promised (delivery driver made error programming his satnav!) , I'm really pleased with it.

However, I've been searching long and hard for the £15 map updates mentioned above, can't find it and there was no option at the time of purchase.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Cheers
Mike!

MikeS48 · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject:

ready-brek · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 7

Well I reckon I get the muppet award there, lobbed the box and presumably voucher code soon after I bought the device!

But all is well, got onto Halfords who were no help whatsoever, so phoned Navigon Customer support line. I'm impressed - got to speak to a very helpful gentleman within a minute or so, he checked my registation details and gave me a new voucher code. I've just purchased online.

Hats off to Navigon Customer Services on this occasion and thanks for your help in putting me in the right direction!

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