Exporting Autoroute pushpins

[Rowen]

TomTom's inability to correctly navigate to many of the addresses in my address book finaly annoyed me one to many times last night, so I set about finding a way around this.



After fiddling with Autoroute for a bit, I found that you could import your Outlook contacts and convert their addresses to pushpins.



I now have two questions:



1) Is it possible to export all of the pushpins in one hit (ready to be converted to TomTom POIs)? The only way I have been able to do it so far is to export small segments of the map for pocket streets - with a large number of dispersed contacts, this could take some time



2) Autoroute only seemed to do one address per contact. If both home and business were present, it would only plot the business address. Any ideas how to get both marked with pushpins?



Once I have the pushpins exported, it'll be a small job to put them into a Contacts POI database in TomTom and get proper routing to all those little villages with no street names



I could always be barking up the wrong tree with this - does anyone know if this would be easier/more effective/automatable using MapPoint (which I have access to at work)?



Thanks fo sticking with such a long post!



Rob

[Oldie]

Rob,

The only way that I know of to get Pushpins out of AutoRoute is by exporting to Pockets Streets and extracting the data from the .psp file. My latest program POIconverter will read the .psp files and let you append the data before outputing in another format. As you say it is tedious to do in small segments.



Also you can improve the TTN/Contacts interface by modifying the address details to match those you would use in TTN. For example, to select an address in Farnham, Surrey I have entered Farnham (Waverley) in my Contacts address. If I used just Farnham then TTN would select Farnham (East Dorset) which is the first in its list.



Richard

[Rowen]

Thanks Richard



I have done this to a few of my addresses. I had to change one addresses city from Reading to Syndelsham (sp?) to make TomTom recognise it. This isn't really an ideal solution, but something I have started doing.



The other problem I had was navigating to a house name on an un-named road in a village. Autoroute knew where it was, no problems, as it used the postcode to find it, but TomTom didn't know where to start :S



It is for these sort of cases that I'm trying to find a solution (and preferably one that doesn't involve my trying every single contact in my address book to see if TomTom likes it!)



I'll be having a play with MapPoint early next week and I'll let you know if I have any success in creating an automated solution...



Rob

We see you’re using an ad-blocker. We’re fine with that and won’t stop you visiting the site.
Have you considered making a donation towards website running costs?.
Or you could disable your ad-blocker for this site. We think you’ll find our adverts are not overbearing!