Using PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database for a Becker sat

tadworth506 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 9

I have been trying to load the PocketGPSWorld speed camera alerts into my Becker but to no avail. I've been following the instuctions listed under POI Warner. I notice that the speed camera alerts are available from Navigon for around 30 Euros but as I have already subscribed to a years speed camera updates on the PocketGPSWorld site I don't really want to pay twice
Would appreciate any help from anyone who has been successful

MaFt · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

have you bought poi warner and installed it on the device?

MaFt

tadworth506 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 9

Yes, I've got POI Warner on it. I've got all the free POI's from POI handler working OK, & I've even subscribed to the weather function. I want to get the speed alerts working on the Becker because at the moment I'm still using my old Garmin i3 in the car as well, just for the speed alerts.

Kremmen · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

Being as I have just ordered the Becker HighSpeed unit I have been doing some surfing.

Yes you can create third party overlays for the Becker unit via POIWarner. They reckon :

Darren

tadworth506 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 9

Kremmen · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:32 am Post subject:

I downloaded one of the free sets of POI data (Airports) for the Navigon from POIWarner and opened them in Notepad and they are in the ASC format as described above.

I know it says use OV2 on the cameras page but Becker via POIWarner seems to want ASC ?

Here is the link :

http://www.navigating.de/cms/index.php?id=4934

It should be easy ?
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Garmin 2599 LMT-D (Indoor test rig)
DashCam:
Viofo A119 V3
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tadworth506 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 9

Got the speed camera alerts working in the Becker at last. Yes Kremmen you are right the Becker uses asc files and not ov2 as indicated on the camera guide for POI Warner. So basically download the "asc other" files and then using Active Synch copy them into the "pois" folder which is found by opening up "my flash disk" and then "poi warner" folder.
Once copied do a reset on the becker and sorted!. The becker does actually convert the files to bak.
The acoustic (warning) tone is pretty poor. If you have the car radio on, or the window open I have found that the tone is not loud enough to bring the speed camera warning to my attention.
I have also managed to put other poi's (ie Lidl's, McDonalds etc) onto the becker that were in csv . All you do is copy them into the pois folder and then change their names from csv to asc. I didn't think that this conversion was going to work and originally was looking for a conversion program but when I could find one I tried a name change and to my surprise it worked. ..... sorted!

Kremmen · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:19 am Post subject:

Excellent stuff.

Having looked at the format of the Navigon files (as reported elsewhere) they also look very similar to the ASC files.

My Becker is going back - I won't double post the probs here.
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Satnav:
Garmin 2599 LMT-D (Indoor test rig)
DashCam:
Viofo A119 V3
Car Average MPG :

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