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littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

Trying to download POI from this site however the file download is not a .oV2 file ?

They all seem to say POI when you download them from link below
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=POIs

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject:

Do they arrive as POI.zip?

If so that's normal.

You need to unzip the file to get the OV2 files.

mcjones56 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 14, 2003 Posts: 22

The filename you download from the site will normally be POIs.zip.

You will need to unzip the file (using something like WinZip if you have a Microsoft Windows PC or Stuffit (I think) if you have a Mac PC).

The zip file once unzipped should contain either a number of .bmp and ov2 files, if you've opted for a combined file then you will have one .bmp and one .ov2 file.

Hope that helps.

littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

i get the zip

and unzip it but the file says POI no .ov2 files ?

littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

i tried unzipping with winrar but it still does not show .ov2 files

mikealder · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

Try downloading a single POI category to your PC and open it, this should unzip to reveal a .ov2 file (the POI locations data) and a .bmp file (the icon)

If the above works, keep your dowload selections to less than 22 sub categories in any single download - Mike

littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

ok got them to work but only individually Very Happy

Tankyou for your help.....

However how can I create a category for instance

At the moment for example argos, bhs, costco are all seperated ?

how can I but them into a category and have them idividually display under one group and still keep the individual icons.

for example
shopping and have argos, bhs, costco all listed seperatly with there icons.

thanks in advance

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:

Have a look at my answer to this question in the POI forum section:
Problems downloading POIs with combined sub-categories

littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

I used POI Edit

But you can only have 1 icon per category

At the moment I can only put the shopping under one category such as shopping and have one icon for all shops within it?

It would be nice to have for instance

Shopping -
agros to show argos icon
bhs to show bhs icon
costco to show costco icon

etc

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

Sorry, didn't read your post carefully enough. Embarassed

Simple answer is you can't.
It's one icon per category.

littlepaws · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 12

many thanks andy

spoke to tomtom direct too and the said the same as you !!

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