TomTom OV2s created directly from Google

schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

This is just too cool!

These two apps, one online and one desktop, will generate TT OV2s from a google search.

You can download the small utility here.
http://www.poi2go.com/mypoi/

Or if you don't want to install anything, try its web version:
http://www.poi2go.com/poi2go/

The sites were posted on GPSpassion by "iper" here:

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49956

schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

The online link will work with Pocket Internet Explorer. Pocket IE doesn't have a "Save File" or "Download" feature but if you navigate to your Temporary Internet Files folder you can recover the files there. For TomTom just cut and paste the OV2 file to your current map directory.

Scanner40 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 22, 2004 Posts: 10

This looks great , but is only available in the USA. Any idea if and when it will be available in the UK ? Sad

schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

If I understand correctly, the app uses Google. Maybe it just needs to be tweaked to point to Google UK and handle your addressing scheme.

Why don't you go to GPSpassion (links above), and PM the developer. He might be able to help.

Besides, before this app, we Gringos were very POI deficient. Iper's cool littl applet will help us catch up. :D

schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

and another thing:

You can use POI Edit to merge files and search for duplicates.

vlak · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: Thats great.....but

Scanner40 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 22, 2004 Posts: 10

The UK version will be available shortly. Check out this link to find out exactly when :" target="_blank" rel=nofollow>http://www.poi2go.com:8080/jforum3/posts/list/23.page: Laughing Out Loud

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Scanner40 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 22, 2004 Posts: 10

Try this

http://www.poi2go.com:8080/jforum3/posts/list/23.page

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject:

schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

If you go to the top of this thread and go to the the third link listed:

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49956

The developer says he uses google. I just repeated what he said as I assumed he knew.

lbendlin · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject:

AFAIK Google doesn't yet offer that API. I also looked inside the JAR file and it clearly links to Yahoo! Local, not to Google.

But that's academic - the result is nice nevertheless. and Yahoo! permits 5000 queries per day per IP address for non-commercial use so we should be safe.
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