POI for Maps

Quarkrad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 18

If one downloaded POIs from this site for different countries (for example hotels in France and hotels for Spain) and loaded them onto a Western_and_Cenral_Europe map would they be sorted by country OK? Can you mix and match the POI on the W&CE map and the are all in right place.

pcaouolte · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, you can put POIs for several countries eg France & Spain into a map that covers both of those countries eg Europe. You need to make sure that the name of the files are different as if they are both called Hotel.ov2 then one will overwrite the other. Simply rename them to French_Hotel.ov2 and Spanish_Hotel.ov2 or similar before copying them to your map folder.

When you want to select a POI you choose from a selection of options like "Near current location" "Near Home" etc and so the most appropriate POIs are listed first. You can search for any POI if for example you were in France and wanted to navigate to a POI in Spain.

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

If, when you are downloading the files, you select both France and Spain then the OV2 file that is generated will include Hotels from both countries in one File.

This also has the benefit of reducing the number of POI Files in the Map Folder.
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Quarkrad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 18

Thank you very much for reply. I had a go yesterday choosing various categories from the list – e.g. all the hotels and all the Banks. When I checked on the tomtom (GO520) I noticed that you could navigate to a POI category. How does this work? When you load POIs from this site is there some sort of flag within each POI that contains a generic category that tomtom recognizes? For example it appears I can navigate to any Bank although I not created a category called Bank. It appears that what ever individual POI you installed in a map folder it goes into the appropriate category – is this the case? Sorry for such a dumb question – new to sat nav/tomtom.

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:

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tommaso54 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 05, 2008 Posts: 3

[quote="Quarkrad"]If one downloaded POIs from this site for different countries (for example hotels in France and hotels for Spain) and loaded them onto a Western_and_Cenral_Europe map would they be sorted by country OK? Can you mix and match the POI on the W&CE map and the are all in right place.[/quote]

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

Nice three quotes there, tommaso! Laughing

POI entries (on the TomTom system anyway)are just a name a pair of latitude and longitude coordinates and maybe a phone number.
So it doesn't matter where or how the poi files are split up, so long as they are in the right map folder and enabled to show up on the map, then they will show in the correct locations.

In other words, if you had a POI file for UK doctors, and for whatever reason there was one extra one for a doctor in France in the same file, then if you put that file into a Europe map folder it would show all the UK doctors AND the French one, but if you put it into a UK map folder the French entry would just be ignored,

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