New to sygic..import 3rd party POI

uk89camaro · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 113

Coming from years of tomtom PND and latterly fromTT mobile (iphone).

My old TT 1005 v2 was fab (I used it mainly for 3rd party POI's), but I wanted to tidy the cabin up a bit so I transfered TT to my old iPhone 4s on IOS7 and still used the imported POI's.

Then one day, under the influence one Sunday evening, I tragically forgot why I had ignored the IOS update nag screen and pressed the update button by mistake!
Evil or Very Mad

Can't reverse it so started to explore the other options that used a downloaded map, rather than a data based online map.

I have a perfectly acceptable in car nav system (it just doesn't take 3rd party POI's), so it was a program only to support the import of those POI's I needed.

Seems Sygic is the only one out there I could find, and largely for free.....but the palarver [sic] one has to go through to parse and export the file to a rupi is almost beyond belief!

Anyone got a better experience of importing POI's?

It's 15.2.5 map 9

Thanks
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Tom Tom 1005 v2 World, Garmin Dakota 20, IPhone 4S

MaFt · Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 11:43 pm Post subject:

Sadly not... It *is* a bit of a palaver Sad

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:24 am Post subject:

And on the latest version of Sygic, you cannot set up proximity warnings for imported POIs (cameras) like you were able to do before the update. I have studiously not done the update on my phone because of this, but do the updates on my tablet in the hope that they have improved the situation. Seems like they are doing the TT thing and removing facilities that some users find really useful.

walkerx · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:53 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:18 pm Post subject:

And it's directional Sygic was not (before the update that removed the proximity alerts)

walkerx · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:04 pm Post subject:

yeh and it worked perfectly running in the background - used to have car dock ultra which allowed full car-docking until google re-instated the setting

cameralert is brilliant because it would warn you when overspeed as well as all cameras

the other problem with sygic is the maps are well out of date

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:58 pm Post subject:

uk89camaro · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 113

Somewhat of an update.

I use a Geocache database tool GSAK, which has a RUPI export macro as an addon.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=21933&st=20&#

I use it for geocaches but you could use it to import other POI I guess.
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Tom Tom 1005 v2 World, Garmin Dakota 20, IPhone 4S

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:09 am Post subject:

Or you could download the Sygic RUPI converter from HERE. Or have a read of THIS website.
Problem is that in the later versions of Sygic they don't allow alerts for third party POIs like earlier versions. I took the precaution not to update mine from the last version that did allow alerts Very Happy

uk89camaro · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 113

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M8TJT · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:40 pm Post subject:

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walkerx · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:58 pm Post subject:

create the folder on the device by using ES File Explorer - copy any poi into there you want adding to the system, again you can use ES FE for this.

If you not bothered about seeing the cameras on the map, just install CamerAlert and it will run in the background and alert you when there are cameras about. It's really easy to configure and works (only now and again is there a little hiccup)

adobbing · Lifetime Member Joined: 08/04/2003 12:55:05 Posts: 213

New to sygic.
I have a large collection of my own TomTom .OV2 and .BMP files.
Is there an easy way to convert them to the correct format for Sygic, .rupi?

I can see a sygic converter but it doesn't seem to work with .OV2 files.

Also with TomTom it was possible to configure verbal warnings for proximity to .OV2 files such as speed cameras, is there any way of configuring Sygic?

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