POI Limit Weirdness

[Anita]

Or use the 'POI in city' option and enter the town she lives in.
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Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1125.12264
Samsung Galaxy S21

[Andy_P]

Daggers is right.
What you are seeing (or not seeing!) is nothing to do with the POI categories limit problem.

If I remember correctly, on v5 software, if you listed the contents of a POI category, it showed you ALL the entries. Version 6 software reduced that to the nearest 100, and v7 has reduced it to show only the nearest 24.

You can TELL there are more though, because if you select "POI near home" you will get a different 24 listed than if you select "POI near destination".

The "Find" function DOES search the whole list though, and is clever enough to find any part of the name not just the first letters.

If you use the PGPSW speed camera POIs, you can prove this for yourself by selecting one of the camera categories , tapping on "Find" and entering a couple of numbers at random. The list will change to show the first 24 entries it finds with those two digits in the ID number.

[wychwoods]

I stand corrected! (or am I having a Paxman moment with my underwear? )

I tried the tip of choosing POI in a City and then searching for the name and it was found OK.

So is there no way to select a POI at the other end of the country which is in a large list, without providing some additional information such as the city? It seems that POI in City is the ONLY option available when planning a new route. The alternatives of POI near you or near home clearly could not work.

To be honest, it still does not make much sense.

-Frank
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TT GO, OS 7.163,
2Gb SD card, Western Europe map v710.1561

[HappyTrucker]

I'm having the same issue. 24 listings only when "Find POI near me" but searching the FIND still won't bring up any of the further ones. I have to know in advance what city the POI is in and look for "POI in CIty". Not the greatest 'enchancement' TT could have come up with

EDIT:

Rats. The next time I start to complain, make sure I'm sure of my facts. It wasn't working when docked and using the HOME interface but it is working when stand alone. Maybe I wasn't putting enough of the name in. Never mind. Sorry guys

[Andy_P]

To reiterate... this is just the way it is (or the way TT have decided to make it, anyway).

You only get a list of the nearest 24 POI entries to wherever you select - 'near you', 'near home', 'near destination', 'along route' or 'in city'.

However, as HT has found, if you use "Find" once you've selected one of those options, it DOES search the entire list of entries.

The other way of selecting a particular POI, is to "Browse map".
Place the blue cursor roughly where you want to search, tap the cursor button at the bottom and select "Find POI nearby". You still only get the nearest 24.

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