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keithjeffrey
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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: Putting POI's and camera database on in-van sat nav system ? |
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I am due to get a new van for work soon.
My firm are looking at getting us Renault Trafic vans with all the extras ( including built in sat. nav. )
Is it still possible to upload POI's and the PGPSW Camera Database to a built in system ?
Is it anymore difficult to do than doing it on a standalone TomTom PND ?
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mikealder
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The van uses the TomTom Carminat unit so you can load custom POI files to it, from the manual it appears to have a setting to display POI on the navigation screen but I am not too sure if it has the "Warn When Near POI" option available to an end user, without this function its useless for third party POI based Speed Camera databases, you can have a read of the manual by clicking Here - Mike |
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Horatio
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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If it is Carminat TomTom, then it runs the speed camera database without problems. You just load them into the map folder on the SD card and then go through the 'Warn when near POI' settings as you would with a regular GO.
I have the Carminat TomTom system in a Laguna, and I'm running the zoned cameras with the custom voices. The only annoyance is that it pauses the stereo every time it speaks, and with a mobile camera warning on every bridge on some stretches of motorway, that can become very irritating very quickly. |
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mikealder
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Horatio wrote: | | The only annoyance is that it pauses the stereo every time it speaks, and with a mobile camera warning on every bridge on some stretches of motorway, that can become very irritating very quickly. |
Try not loading the Mobile 70 category then if its a pain, at the end of the day if you travel over 70MPH on the motorway there is little point in getting warnings as you know you are speeding, a laser style speed camera will have your speed in seconds and usually before you spot the van on the overbridge - Mike |
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Horatio
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| mikealder wrote: | | Horatio wrote: | | The only annoyance is that it pauses the stereo every time it speaks, and with a mobile camera warning on every bridge on some stretches of motorway, that can become very irritating very quickly. |
Try not loading the Mobile 70 category then if its a pain, at the end of the day if you travel over 70MPH on the motorway there is little point in getting warnings as you know you are speeding, a laser style speed camera will have your speed in seconds and usually before you spot the van on the overbridge - Mike |
I've considered that, or swapping the voice on 'Mobile 70' with a very brief beep. I may well take all of the pMobile warnings off too. There's a danger in the warnings being so frequent that you start failing to consciously register them. I had that many years ago with a radar detector (when they were still legal); I was so used to it going off at pedestrian lights or anywhere near a shop with an automatic door opener, that it didn't even register on the couple of occasions that it actually detected a police radar gun.
I've only had the car a couple of months, so I'm still deciding how I want to do a number of things. FWIW, my annoyance isn't with the camera database, it's with the navigation/stereo system. My last one reduced the volume of the audio whenever it spoke, but this one actually pauses the music, which breaks up the flow.
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