POI Help Pocket PC

[WendyBlack]

I am also getting no database to download if I ask it to download POI grouped into categories. If I ask it to do separate downloads then it is OK but this is incredibly messy on my Pocket PC.

I tried with IE7, then FireFox and neither would do this. I tried following the link in the last post and that went to a generic page that said it was not available.

Can anyone help please

[PaulB2005]

Hi and welcome.

I've split this into the POI area as this doesn't really fall under the category of Membership Sign Up Problems.

Can you explain exactly what you are doing and what happens.
How many POI categories do you want to download?
What do you get?
What if you reduce the number of categories to say 5 at a time?
Have you tried the Show link option?

[WendyBlack]

Hi Paul

Thanks for responding and sorry I put this in the wrong place.

I have tried downloading just ONE category when I couldn't get it to work any other way. I chose one at random, left all the subs ticked below it and asked to download as a category and it goes to a Connection Problem page in IE (telling me that I don't have an Internet connection, which I do) and a perfectly blank page in FireFox.

I tick the show link option each time as I was getting absolutely nothing without that. The file would download with all the individual POI (not in a category) but was empty. When I did it with Show Link I can get all the individual POI and get them displayed but it is SO messy that I would like them ordered into categories.

Can you help

[mikealder]

[WendyBlack]

Thanks. Took your advice and kept to less than 20 but they still don't come down in a category. When I unzipped and installed they are still just loads of individual POIs, very frustrating.

I can't get POIEdit to work on my computer either. It installs but can't see this website. Not sure if that's due to firewall or whatever but I didn't like the look of it at all. I had hoped to just be able to download a POI category with relevant POIs included. What a shame.

[mikealder]

OK try this as I have just checked it through to make sure the system is working correctly:
Select Fuel, tick 20 of the subcategories, make sure the "Combine Subcats" and "Show Link" are both selected, hit the download button and you should get a Win Zip file containing fuel.bmp (the icon) and fuel.ov2 (the data containing the locations of all 20 subcategories you selected earlier).

PGPSW does not support POIEdit download as the POI files you download are created on the fly so to speak, the reason I mentioned it earlier is that POIEdit can be used to join multiple POI files together very easily.

Take the Fuel example above, we only have 20 of the actual subcategories in the first download, so download it a second time but this second occasion you should select the remaining subcategories (keeping the total below 20 each time). With two Fuel POI files on your PC you can use POIEdit to open the first ov2 file then append the second Fuel ov2 file to it. By concatenating the two downloads this way you now have the single Fuel category containing all the sub categories.

I appreciate this sounds difficult but in reality it takes a very short amount of time to do this - what we need to resolve is why your PC isn't downloading the data in the correct way, try my example above and report back what happens - Mike

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