I cant get speed camera alerts onto my i3?

MrString · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 3

I am new to all this can someone please help me? I have a Garmin i3. I have downloaded the POI loader and paid my subscription but when I downloaded the UK - POIloader i3 Nuvi etc AND the UK single file with all cameras GPX speed camera alerts I cant get them onto my i3. I dont think my PC recognises the files and when I point the POI loader to where the files are stored on my PC it says 'No valid data was found in the specified directory, thus no data was be written'
Somebody please help.
Rgds
Paul Embarassed

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:04 am Post subject:

Can you tell us the filenames of the files you are pointing POILoader at.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

Have you unzipped the downloaded file and pointed POILoader at the contents or are you poiting POILoader at the ZIP file?

Please try and explain exactly and clearly what you are doing and what happens - errors etc

MrString · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi men,
The downloaded file I have got isn't recognised by my pc. I have tried re-naming the file with .csv on the end with no luck. However I just tried re-naming the file with .ZIP on the end and it seems to have some content so I will point the POI loader to this file tonight and see if I can load my GPS with the data.
I have got WINRAR on my machine and not WINZIP do you think this may have caused the problem, because the original Safety camera database when downloaded wasn't recognised.

Thanks for such a quick response.

Rgds

Paul :D

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

you can use winrar to unzip/extract the files from the downloaded zip file.

this will give you csv's and bmps (and some txt files) that poi loader will 'recognise'

MaFt

MrString · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 3

HEY! HEY!........All sorted thanks. The download appeared on my PC WITHOUT the .zip extension which confused the hell out of me and my machince could not read the file. All I had to do was re-name the file with a .zip at the end, it turned into a zip file and I simply unzipped it and told the POI loader where the file was and it was uploaded onto my GPS. I don't know if it works yet but I know the files were transferred.

Keep up the good work gang, this is a FANTASTIC and I will defo be recommending it to my mates.

Thanks for all your help, mucho appreciated. It was such a simple thing but for the non 'techy' people like myself, it causes BIG probs.

cheers and all the best

Kind rgds

Paul. :D :D :D

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