Navman ICN720

[Goliboy]

The POI can only accept .csv files why cannot I download them in this format from your database.

[Sunnygjg]

Goliboy ..... you can download in .csv format. Before clicking the download button ensure that you select 'Navman' in the "select sat nav system" and you will get the files you need.
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Navman iCN 530
512 MB Kingston Elite Pro SD

[Tim Buxton]

[Andy_P]

Just out of interest, Tim, what is the advantage of the .asc format?

If they are so identical that you can just rename the extension to get it to work anyway, why not just go back to calling them .csv and avoid all this recurrent confusion that is going on?

[Tim Buxton]

The .csv format as supplied by PGPSW is (and has always been) slightly different in that it contains a header line. That line is used by other software but for some reason Navman decided not only not to use it but also to make it unrecognisable by their POIEditor. Therefore the .csv file had to be edited to make it recognisable by POIEditor, and if it was edited by Excel, the default application to open .csv files, it became corrupted.

In V3 and 2005 (all variants) and even 2006 for the iCN530 then either .csv or .asc formats were able to be used but again, for some reason best known to themselves, Navman have made .csv the default format for 2006 for the iCN7xx range. It can be forced to use .asc files but this has to be done for each and every file. It wouldn't have been too bad if you only had to do it once per session.

So, .csv is already in use and .asc is the format that the Navman actually recognises. I'm sure Navman have the capability to make their POIEditor accept .asc files and I for one think that they should make use of that capability.
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Tim

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