Questions re POIs

[delboya]

A few questions re POIs. I’ve been a Tomtom user for several years, but am only just getting into these – currently on an XXL.

1. Am I correct in thinking you can only add an icon to a POI category, as opposed to an actual POI within a category?? I have a situation where I am trying to set up POIs around a particular city (Le Mans in France), and have a category called LM_Supermarkets. Ideally, I wanted each supermarket in that category to have it’s own icon (ie the supermarket’s logo).

2. What is a .tlv file?? I downloaded a POI file from one of the (many) library’s available, and it put a file in the POI folder with the name POI-name.tlv. When I added the above LM_Supermarket category (using the device itself), it does not add the name into the POI folder.

3. I used PoiEdit to generate the .ov2 files, but when I try to ‘Save to Remote’, it comes up with an error “Remote API Library not found, make sure you have ActiveSync installed”. According to the MS web site, ActiveSync works on XP SP2 or lower – I have SP3. I got round this by manually creating a POI category on the PND, and then overwriting the file generated with the one from PoiEdit using Explorer.


Many thanks in advance

Del

[mikealder]

Each POI Category can have its own icon, the icon will apply to every location stored within the ov2 file. It needs to be 22x22 colour bmp file with the file name exactly matched to the ov2 file:

Supermarkets_LM.ov2
Supermarkets_LM.bmp

Forget about the tlv file it's something TomTom Home uses AFAIK to tell the useless PC software where to put the POI files.

When using POIEdit simply save the resulting file as ov2 format then use Windows Explorer to copy the ov2 and coresponding bmp file to the map folder on your device - Mike

[Oldboy]

Hi, and welcome to the Forum.

1. You can only allocate one icon to a category, not individual locations within the category. As far as I know this limitation applies to all Satnavs.

2. A .tlv file is a file that HOME uses, and I believe it holds certain information that HOME can use to display data about the category. It's not necessary to have a .tlv file for the POIs to function correctly.

3. With PoiEdit you only need to Save the File and it will be created on the PC. You can choose where to save it, and the format you want to save it in. This is the file you then copy to your Device. You have no need to use ActiveSync for this task.
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[Andy_P]

[delboya]

Thanks for the answers, folks. Mainly confirmed what I thought.

FYI Andy - I looked in my Brands folder and there is one file in there - 7310_1.bmp - which I havn't put there. It's a segmented circle, with each segment a slightly darker shade of grey (maps v880 on XXL Europe).

Totally off topic, where the heck is this server located?? My original post was timed some 10 hours in the future!!

Del

[mikealder]

Go to your profile and adjust it to show the time region for your location - Mike

[Andy_P]

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