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pitstop Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Essex
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: MPH/KPH speed camera question |
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I have the speed camera database in my 360 and it works fine (using MPH). I want to load a French camera database onto a SD card. As the French speed limits and warnings in the database will be in KPH, If, when I reach France, I change the Nuvi settings to Km's will this be fine and not cause any confusion with my Frence camera warnings? |
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swing Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 2225 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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No.
The POI Loader converts either the MPH or KPH figures within the CSV files into metres per second, and then the Nuvi uses this measure for the speed alert.
There are 2 ways of handling this:
1. Load one file using MPH, rename the .gpi file directly onto the Nuvi, and then load the other file using KPH.
2. Change the KPH values in the CSV files for the equivalent MPH figure and then upload all files in one go with POI Loader. _________________ Please don't be offended if I do not reply to a PM - please ask questions via the forums. |
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pitstop Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Essex
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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swing wrote: | Change the KPH values in the CSV files for the equivalent MPH figure and then upload all files in one go with POI Loader. |
I'd rather do that. Is there an easy way to do this other than changing every single line? It'll take me ages to do that! |
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JockTamsonsBairn Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 10, 2004 Posts: 2777 Location: Bonnie Scotland (West Central)
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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pitstop wrote: | swing wrote: | Change the KPH values in the CSV files for the equivalent MPH figure and then upload all files in one go with POI Loader. |
I'd rather do that. Is there an easy way to do this other than changing every single line? It'll take me ages to do that! | Have a look at my post in this thread. No one actually confirmed that it will work & it is for converting from MPH to KPH, you "just" have to reverse the conversion :D
Hope that helps! _________________ Jock
TomTom Go 940 LIVE (9.510, Europe v915.5074 on SD & 8.371, WCE v875.3613 on board) |
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swing Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 2225 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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pitstop wrote: | I'd rather do that. Is there an easy way to do this other than changing every single line? It'll take me ages to do that! | Using Excel, a find and replace on things like Find: @130 Replace: @81 and then select Replace All should speed up the work and limit the amount of work required. _________________ Please don't be offended if I do not reply to a PM - please ask questions via the forums. |
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pitstop Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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swing wrote: | pitstop wrote: | I'd rather do that. Is there an easy way to do this other than changing every single line? It'll take me ages to do that! | Using Excel, a find and replace on things like Find: @130 Replace: @81 and then select Replace All should speed up the work and limit the amount of work required. |
Thanks. That sounds pretty painless. If I do that so that all the @130 (km/h) warnings are changed to @81 (mp/h), when I am on the continent (and change the settings on my Nuvi to kilometers), will a 130kph speed camera warning 'boing' at 81 mph (130 kmh) OR 'boing' at 81 kmh? |
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swing Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 2225 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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If you change all the values in that way - eg 130 to 81, and you upload all the speed cameras (UK and Europe) as "Feet and mph" then a 130kph will alert at 81mph and will also display "Speed Alert 81mph".
Actually the display of "Speed Alert 81mph" is a setting within the Nuvi - so, technically, you could change the unit to Km whilst in mainland Europe and then it would still bong at 81mph/130kph, but would now display "Speed Alert 130kph" - the downside is that it would tell you "in 500 metres turn left" instead of "in 200 yards turn left" which might be more confusing... _________________ Please don't be offended if I do not reply to a PM - please ask questions via the forums. |
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philpugh Lifetime Member
Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 2003 Location: Antrobus, Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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swing wrote: | Actually the display of "Speed Alert 81mph" is a setting within the Nuvi - so, technically, you could change the unit to Km whilst in mainland Europe and then it would still bong at 81mph/130kph, but would now display "Speed Alert 130kph" - the downside is that it would tell you "in 500 metres turn left" instead of "in 200 yards turn left" which might be more confusing... |
I would argue that if you are doing any travelling in Europe one should really try and understand the speed/distance as all the road signs will be km/hr, kms and mtrs. And we all know how forgiving the French Police are
I would suggest treating "in x metres" as "in x yards" which is close enough (10% under) over the short distances that sat navs give warnings - in any case people are generally very bad at estimating distances of this magnitude. For larger distances / speeds use the built in convertor supplied as standard in UK cards - the speedo - it has mph/kmph which can also be used to convert kms to miles. If all else fails remember 80km(/hr) = 50 m(ph) (with pretty good accuracy) _________________ Phil |
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pitstop Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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What I am hoping to happen is that I first convert the kph details to the mph equivalent and load them onto my card then, when I am in France, change the settings in the Nuvi to kms as this will be easier to understand distances etc. What I was wondering was, is that if I do that, does the Nuvi automatically convert my mph figures and boing at 130 kph for an 81mph setting or will it boing at 81kmh? |
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swing Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 2225 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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In that case, it will correctly bong at 130kph (and display as such) even though you entered the POIs as 81mph.
This is because, internally in the Nuvi it uses neither mph or kph, but metres per second (which is why POI Loader needs to know what units are used in the POI files to convert them to this format), and then the Nuvi displays the metres per second values in either kph or mph depending on the locale setting. _________________ Please don't be offended if I do not reply to a PM - please ask questions via the forums. |
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pitstop Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Right. I've finally got it! Thanks. |
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