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jono4000
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: Help - strange poi category found on my Tomtom ??!! |
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Help !!
purchased a second hand Tomtom one v3 a while back and only now just really starting to use it, have noticed that within the poi list there are around 11 sets off poi`s all having a small square black coloured background with the letters UK PC, uk lettering in orange and underneath the letters pc in white, the categories are devided into aa-br , bs-cv,cw-eh,hx-ls,lu-nn,np-pr,rg-sn,so-ts and tw-ze.
have not got a clue what they all are ??!!
whos first to guess then ??!!! |
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mikealder
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Are they postcode files per chance, if so they are not required as the device is more than accurate enough with its own in built files.
Try Browse Map/ Find/ POI then select one of the categories and see if you can spot a local postcode from the points of interest files - Mike |
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DennisN
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You've bought one of those ones which a member of MI5 left on the underground by mistake - those are all the next targets for full time surveillance and detention without charge for 28 months.
PS This is a joke.
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Rick-uk
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| Using POI Edit you could batch convert them to Google Earth .kml format. You would then be able to see what (if any) buildings they may apply to. (secret nuclear bunkers etc) |
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jono4000
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Top prize goes to .......mike !!!
get rid, not needed you reckon ?? |
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Darren
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| jono4000 wrote: | | get rid, not needed you reckon ?? |
You don't need 'em. Copy them off to your PC if you wish or delete.
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DennisN
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| jono4000 wrote: | | Top prize goes to .......mike !!! |
Typical!! I have just this sort of luck with the monthly competition. 
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Pocketgps
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Well I think you missed a trick there, could have put them on flea-bay.
Somebody would have purchased them  |
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SQUARE2024
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| Rick-uk wrote: | | Using POI Edit you could batch convert them to Google Earth .kml format. You would then be able to see what (if any) buildings they may apply to. (secret nuclear bunkers etc) |
Secret nuclear bunkers are usually well sign posted !
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Andy_P
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DennisN
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OK Andy - I'm so old I can be excused for being stupid - tell me that's a wind up. 
Or am I just setting the scene for a zillion Secret Nuclear Bunker sign pictures? 
EDIT Dammit! I knew about that place back when it WAS secret before anybody else was born - I was at RAF North Weald not a million miles away.
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SQUARE2024
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: |
EDIT Dammit! I knew about that place back when it WAS secret before anybody else was born - I was at RAF North Weald not a million miles away. |
North weald is now a "weekend" flyers airfield.including one or two private owned ex air force jets I know this as they fly out over the Blackwater estuary normally straight over my house !
The other use now days for North Weald is the biggest Saturday market in the area,
Never seen a plaque stating Dennis N was stationed here though
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DennisN
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| SQUARE2024 wrote: | | Never seen a plaque stating Dennis N was stationed here though |
Not a highlight of my career - I was part of a team closing the place down to Care & Maintenance - so few of us they even picked me for the station football team. Not long after they lost 111 Squadron, Hawker Hunters Display team. Before anybody else was born.
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