TomTom GO 910 Safety Camera Update

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

I got round to connecting my GO910 to my PC last night for the first time in a month or so, and Home wanted to download and install some TomTom safety camera updates (I don't subscribe to them though). Home asked me which map to install the *_PT_* files to, and I haven't a clue! I told it to use the Western Europe map, but does anyone know which map these files are for? I can't find any reference anywhere.

TIA.

Nick

Andy_P · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:

Assuming they are UK cameras, then they go into whichever map folder you are using at the moment (or all of them if you like, but obviously they will only show up on a map covering where they are!). In your case, Western Europe sounds right.

If you have updated a map, and havent deleted the old one, there is sometimes an issue where the on-screen name of the new map is the same as the previous version, making it hard to see which map folder the unit is actually using.
One way to double check is to add a new POI category (in Preferences/Manage POI), using an easily recognisable name ("testing" for example).
Then connect up to the PC and use Windows Explorer to view the contents of your map folders. When you find a file called "Testing.ov2", it will be in the map folder the unit is using at the moment.

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

Thanks Andy, but I'm still not sure. I haven't updated any maps, and I am currently using the Western Europe map. As you said in your post "assuming they are UK cameras" then they go in the Western Europe folder. My question is, though, are they UK cameras, or even European cameras?

A secondary question is, why does Home download camera updates when I haven't subscribed to them? Is it because my GO is less than a year old or something similar? I thought that you only got updated camera details if you subscribed to the TomTom database (and everyone says don't - the PGPSW ones are much better).

Nick

Andy_P · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 10:23 am Post subject:

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

Exactly! The filenames are something like radar_PT_... (I can't remember the full names, and I'm at work now), and although I've searched Google and other places I can't find any reference to what the PT might mean. As I said, I told Home to put them in the WE folder. I wonder whether there's a way to find out where they are for?

Home didn't used to give me updates, but has done a couple of times since I got my GO for Christmas. Perhaps they've started to provide updates to the camera database that came with the unit. I think I did see something about updates available for all on the yourNav site, but I wasn't sure what that referred to.

Nick

DennisN · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

Thanks Dennis. I'll have another look this evening. I'm sure it had PT in it though. Of course my memory is not that good Fred. Smile

Nick

DennisN · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

Listen Dick, believe me you've got short term memory loss - I remember what it used to be like - always mixing up my ITs, PTs, ATs, BEs, DEs, CHs, NLs, ESs and any amount of stuff. Don't worry, it'll improve with the onset of Dementia.
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Two of them are obesiting!!

Andy_P · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:46 am Post subject:

Thank you for that little addition to your sig. Dennis. You were quick to spot that one... Laughing

Oldboy · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

I think the _PT_ are Cameras for Portugal. There's 5 sets.

I don't subscribe to the TT Cameras, but they still offer to download/install them for me. Smile

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DennisN · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

Well, I've just checked Dennis, and yes there are definitely 5 pairs of PT files. Looks like your eyesight is going as well as your memory!

Thanks Oldboy for the answer. Looks like assuming the WE map was the right thing to do!

Nick

DennisN · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

What was it again that makes you go blind?
I suppose TT are giving you some lovely new ones for PTland then. My info was from looking at a backup, some six months old - before Portugal was invented. I've been declining every TT offer since then, so maybe I've got them on my TT Home somewhere also. Nope, just checked and I haven't. But I've got NOs, called fartsboks and SEs called fartkamera if that helps. Laughing

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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

NACarter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 6

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