Help a newbie out with POIs

jhansman · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: Help a newbie out with POIs

OK, I'm trying to get a handle on this POI thing. My understanding is that TomTom's (using 5.10) POIs are kept in an .OV2 file, yes? Well, when I search for such a file on my Axim, all that comes up is a 1k file that has one local. Now, there are literally hundreds of POIs I can navigate to, so where are they?! Apparently, not in an .OV2 file, eh? I've found all my favorites in the .CFG file, but that's about it. I am playing with POI Edit and would like to use it to add to TT, but as you can see, I'm stumped. Help? TIA! Confused

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

The pois that come preinstalled are in a file called poi.dat. you can't edit it though.
You can add your own pois in the ov2 format and a bmp file with a matching name just put them in your map folder.
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jhansman · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:21 am Post subject:

Ah, I see. Do the POIs that end up in the .OV2 file somehow integrate with those in the .DAT file, or are they just kept as favorites? Thanks.

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:

The TT POI facility has the ability!! to understand the POI.dat and the added .ov2 files. They are not intergrated into 1 great file they just co-exist.
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jhansman · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:

Yes, I have POI Edit (see my OP), but using it in some intelligent way is what I'm stuggling with. A tutorial on all this would be nice. Anyone know of such a thing?

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