Tomtom 5upgrade - POST CODES NOT WORKING - HELP!!!!!

dpurslow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 10

Hi there, I consider myself to be fairly computer savvy. I installed the upgrade yesterday and its running fine. Used it last night for a 170 mile round trip and found it very good.

I think it will take some getting used to, but I like the being able to create my own POI groups as I am a LPG driver and log all the LPG stations as I pass by.

Anway, I installed the postcodes, from what I can see, it put them into a seperate folder called ZIP - I cant click on the file as it says it needs a application to open it.

When I try to navigate via postcode, as I type it in, it only pulls up the city name not a post code address - any idea why this is ?

anyone got the postcodes working ??? - The post codes were the ONLY reason I upgraded and I am not happy about it at present.

any help would be great,

thanks

David Purslow
07799 666808

HP ipaq 2210 - TT5

dpurslow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 10

Okay, after spending a little time searching around on the forum, I have fixed it.

here is what I did.

in this thread it gives you all the info you need

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=22180

basically, when you install the postcodes, it puts them in a folder called zip.

your maps are in a folder called Great britian maps or something like that.

all of the above are on your CF /SD card.

You NEED to have for some unknown reason a empty folder called tomtom (all lowercase) in the ROOT folder of your CF / SD card. By just creating this folder, it started to work right away.

nothing else to it.

I installed the Plus maps first, then took them out to put the GB maps in thinking that was the problem, but NOT.

I now have the Postcode working on the GB maps and unless I run into a problem I will NOT be loading the plus maps unless there is a good reason.

The postcode thing takes a bit of getting used to as it does not use spaces..... but it works from what I have seen.

hope this helps.

regards,

David

dpurslow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 10

Okay, after spending a little time searching around on the forum, I have fixed it.

here is what I did.

in this thread it gives you all the info you need

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=22180

basically, when you install the postcodes, it puts them in a folder called zip.

your maps are in a folder called Great britian maps or something like that.

all of the above are on your CF /SD card.

You NEED to have for some unknown reason a empty folder called tomtom (all lowercase) in the ROOT folder of your CF / SD card. By just creating this folder, it started to work right away.

nothing else to it.

I installed the Plus maps first, then took them out to put the GB maps in thinking that was the problem, but NOT.

I now have the Postcode working on the GB maps and unless I run into a problem I will NOT be loading the plus maps unless there is a good reason.

The postcode thing takes a bit of getting used to as it does not use spaces..... but it works from what I have seen.

hope this helps.

regards,

David

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