how do I POI

Anita · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

I must stress I know absolutely nothing about your device, but if you follow the link Oldboy gave earlier it is exactly the same for the POIs you want as for the speed cameras, except for the names of the files. And you must skip the bit about the sound files.

After extracting the files to your desktop I would expect you to have a folder called "POIs" containing two files for each POI category - a .bmp file and a .csv file.

Is that what you have?
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Anita · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I should have mentioned this earlier - if you haven't already done so back up your device to your pc before doing anything else!

Looking at the link mentioned it seems that POIs are stored in Favourites on your device! Embarassed

I think the only bits from the instructions in that link that are relevant to you are:

1. Download the POIs.

2. Unzip all files - you should have a .bmp and a .csv file for each category.

3. Start ActiveSync, then use Explorer to copy the .bmp files to the \Destinatorapps\Destinator\Common\Favorites Folder on your device.

4. Use Destinator Console to convert and install the .csv files onto your device.

I'm not sure if you need the next step for POIs or if it’s just to display speed camera warnings. I would try without first and, if you can't see the icons on the map, follow step 5:

5. Start Navigator, then go to Favorites, select each of the categories and enable each one by clicking the eye on.

Hope this helps. If not I'm afraid you'll have to hope for a Destinator expert to come along!
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Nicky321 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 34

Anita · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

Seems to have unzipped OK so, sorry, I don't know where you can go from here.

I can only suggest you try Destinator Customer Support here.

Good luck!
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Nicky321 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 34

Im off to bed now, given it up for the day (day 3). what files should i have? csv? dat? bmp? all three? and where does each file go? Ive tried putting them in favourites but even though the catergories appear under favourites when i click on a category i just get a column of numbers eg
-0.04266
-0.06261
-009251
-0.15575
etc

instead of distance, name, location etc

hope someone can throw some light on this, before i throw this.

Anita · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

Nicky321 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 34

Thanks Anita for your help, ive tried again, done a complete reformat of the SD Card and started again but still cant get the downloaded POIs to work. I have now emailed as in your post.

Anita · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject:

Good luck, Nicky.

Hope they help you to get it sorted. If so, please come back and let us know how you did it. It could be useful to someone else in the future.
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Nicky321 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 34

I was given the following information on another forum.

I got the Compasseo 820 and I managed to update my countrys speed cams and stuff into it. But not without some serious digging.
I suspect your GPS is as picky with the format the the POI database are imported as mine is. The CSV file has to be EXACTLY in the correct format.

1. You need a spreadsheet program that can edit and make CSV files. I used Microsoft Excel

2. Export one of the existing POI databases from the device to the PC. By looking at that file, you can see the correct format for the .CSV file

3. Open both the exported CSV and your CSV file in excel. Edit your CSV file so thath it has exactly the same number of colums and that there are no empty columns (put e.g. zeros in empty columns). Save your CSV file as a CSV file (NOT as Excel), discard formatting (Excel will warn you about this)

4. Open both files (exported CSV and your CSV) in Notepad. Compare the two files.

5. Look at the co-ordinates. Excel (depending on your country settings) may have put the co-ordinates in the form (12,345). If this is the case, the CSV file will not work. The decimals need to be separated by points ".", not by commas ",". Use notepads Find-Replace All to replace all "," with "."

6. Look at the separator for the values (remember CSV = comma separated values file). Excel may have separated the values with ";" instead of ",". Again this needs to be fixed. Use Find-Replace All to replace all ";" signs with ",". Notice that steps 5 and 6 need to be done in this order, otherwise you'll mess up the co-ordinates.

7. Save file from notepad

Now your CSV file should work, provided that 1) you have the correct number of columns, 2) there are no empty columns, 3) the columns are separated by the correct "," characters, 4) your co-ordinates are decimals separated by full-stop characters (i.e. 12.345)

In the process of digging up this stuff I discovered a lot of other interesting stuff about the Compasseo. For example, the .ini files contained parts labelled 'Packard Bell hacks', which I think speaks volumes about Packard Bell's products and the attitude with which they have been designed.

Not sure how to do section 2

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