POI Limit Weirdness

meryvn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2007 Posts: 37

I downloaded a lot of the POI's from this site and added them to my 520, i am pretty sure i reached the limit of what is allowed as only about 120 would be listed for me to choose to navigate to. Although the others were still shown on the map (eg all Lidl's that i drove past would have the icon on the map, but if i went to Naviagte to POI and typed in Lidl it would'nt find it as a category!), and when you go to unshow them on the map they do not appear in the list? Is this what TomTom mean when they say you can have 300 POI categories? Though it is pretty poor if it is as you can only choose to Naviagate to about 120 of them!

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

What software version have you got installed to the 520? - tap the sat strength meter to find out, early versions of the software allowed around 100, only the later releases permitt 300 categories - Mike

meryvn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2007 Posts: 37

It is 7.221 (8572/071121) with UK and Eire map 710.1561.

I have it set to autoupdate when i attach it to home and it has never found any updates.

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

It should work with that version on the device, can you view the map folder using Windows Explorer and count up how many files end with the extension of .ov2 it could be the MapShare POI Updates that are limitting the number of custom POI's you can install along with the TomTom Speed Camera files - Mike

Anita · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject:

I also had a problem with the number of POI catgories - see this thread.

The only way I could add and access more custom POI categories was by getting rid of the TomTom ones! Confused

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meryvn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2007 Posts: 37

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

if1977 · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject:

Andy, Please tell me you are not listening to advice from TomTom. Laughing

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Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:05 am Post subject:

I just haven't got round to adding the 200-300+ dummy POI files yet to prove him wrong! Laughing

(I've still got the 100 I made laboriously one by one, before Oldboy told me how I could copy them! Embarassed

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meryvn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2007 Posts: 37

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

The 720 also has 64MB RAM.

The usage of the RAM is the same as on a PC, albeit smaller, and it will also use Paging Memory on the Internal Flash memory, or SD Card, to supplement it.

There is no way for the User to change the usage of the RAM.
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wychwoods

This is interesting. I've recently upgraded my TT GO to 2Gb SD card holding the latest Western Europe map v710.1561 and OS 7.163.

I've just found that my old POI categories each hold just 24 entries. Adding another one seems to allowed, but the new POI is not listed in the category.

RAM is reported as 29MB with 2.0MB free. Is that the cause of my POI limit? Is it likely to be because I loaded all speed-zoned UK (31 categories) and Europe (41) camera databases and set each one to provide proximity warning?

It seems that all these camera databases each show just 24 POIs too. But Question

if I delete one POI, there are still 24 listed! So it seems to be a list display problem and not just list truncation.

If it is a RAM limit problem, is there anything I can delete? I note there are 24 different language files with the WE map - I could remove most of these easily but would it help?

Thoughts, please anyone?

-Frank

pcaouolte · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

They don't hold only 24 entries it is just that the tomtom now shows you only the nearest 24 entries. This is an enhancement Wink

in the later version of the software.

If you press the Find button at the bottom of the screen and enter any part of the name of a POI that you are looking for the tomtom will display it.

wychwoods · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

Daggers · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

You must be spelling it wrongly! Press the Find button, then start to type in the name of the individual POI (not the category), and it will appear in your list.

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