Has the latest version of Igo dropped adding POIs?

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

As the title.

I have been trying this every way without success.

Many thanks,

Allan

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

Their support people have just replied and they have dropped adding POIs to the system.

Now looking at Copilot!

Privateer · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:26 am Post subject:

Hi Allan,

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:57 am Post subject:

Seems like they are going the way of tomtom.
Get an older version that does support directional PGPSW cams

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

I will put a post in the Copilot forum as I have been doing some experimenting!

MaFt · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:24 pm Post subject:

Do you know what version they stopped at? I will need to update the compatibility chart and we've also started getting support tickets about it...

MaFt

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

Not offhand as I removed it from the tablet. It was the update they released a few weeks ago.

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

Co-pilot also has issues. Its fine for the Speedcams from here but stopped accepting other POIs. It is rapidly looking like TomTom for Android!

Privateer · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:45 pm Post subject:

Which version of TomTom are you going to use on your android? There's the old TomTom app and the newer TomTom GO Mobile.

On iOS, although TomTom GO Mobile was released in March 2016 (i.e. currently 11 months ago) it's nothing more than a basic SatNav with limited usability and certainly doesn't support custom (i.e. third party) POIs.

The older iOS TomTom app is much better than than GO Mobile but is no longer available on the iTunes app store.

On the whole, SatNav developers are going away from supporting custom POIs. If just one broke from the norm and offered custom POIs then I think that they'd get a good market share.

Regards,
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Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

Its Go Mobile on Android. You can now import custom POIs via MyDrive which seems to work.

I am also looking at MapFactor with the TomTom maps on it.

Privateer · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:37 pm Post subject:

Sounds like android version of GO Mobile is much more advanced than iOS.

When you import POIs via MyDrive do the icons show in the navigation screen and the map screen?

Regards,
_________________
Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

I haven't got that far! I am already a major step forward than with everything else.

It doesn't allow icons to be uploaded though that isn't a problem.

walkerx · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:18 pm Post subject:

i know it's not perfect, but Sygic supports custom POI (and if you get rupi manager it will elt you convert from different formats) - it doesn't support 3rd party speed cameras, but if you have cameralert this will overlay the speed warnings on the screen.

i was just looking at the size of igo - 222mb download

Allan_whoops · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 369

I have been looking at the lot! I can't remember why I didn't go down the Sygic route but it was to do with POI support.

Co-pilot does but their latest release is causing problems with importing them though they are in the process of fixing it.

I looked at Aponia which supports POIs and Mapfactor. I have gone down the Mapfactor route as they use OSM and TomTom maps.

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:13 pm Post subject:

Shame about Sygic. They used to support third party speed cams proximity alerts, but removed the 'facility' a few updates ago. You can still load the PGPSW database to give you the icons on the map (Sygic's speed cams are not very good) and use CA as the actual warning method.
Not sure if Sygic still have their .CSV to whatever program that allows adding of PGPSW speedcams as POIs. I have a copy.

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