TomTom and Outlook

montyburns · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 32

My other half says she read somewhere that you can link the TT5 with the address book in Outlook?

Can't find a way to do this.

Did she imagine it?!

Etwell · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

You can import Contacts into a PDA running Windows Pocket PC....

Then from within Contacts you can/should be able to navigate to an address.

However.... it can be a bit iffy. See this link that was about it.

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=34710&highlight=etwell

peterc10 · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

As I said in the post that Etwell linked to if you are already synced to your PDA (running PPC) then the facility should be ther. Go into contacts on the PDA, press and hold one and a list of options came up. If you have "navigate to" and "find on map" click on them and TT should launch and do what you asked It can only do Nvigate to if you have a GPS fix but will do find on map without fix.
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schneid · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 147

TT 5 PPC installs a Pocket Outlook plugin when installed. You simply tap and hold a contact and "Navigate To" will pop up. Click OK and TT will open with your Contact as the destination.

The Contacts have to be enter just so, i.e. in the standard TT needs.

Other Today plugins can break it.

To import your address book from your PC, I'd import it Streets$Trips/Autoroute and have POIconverter make it a TT custom POI file.

montyburns · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 32

Woo! Cool! 8) Thanks!

This actually works! I'd been trying to do it from within TT5

Now all I need to do is actually put some addresses into Outlook (a couple of hundred phone numbers, but only two addresses! Sad

)

peterc10 · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

If you are going to put the adresses in take a bit more time. Instead of just entering address in address box in Outlook click on the address button next to it. That will bring up another box that will prompt you to break down the address into components (street city etc). that way TT is much more likely to recognise the address.
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HTC Sensation
Sygic GPS for Europe (No more TT "support"!)
Copilot for USA
Bury CC9060 bluetooth car kit & Brodit mount

Border_Collie · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:53 am Post subject:

But be aware that if the house has a name instead of a number or you are visiting a block of flats, it doesn't work. It's best in these cases to use the postcode.

Border_Collie · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:54 am Post subject:

Use the postcode search from within TomTom, is what I should have said.

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