Remember POI categories?

MrSoapsud · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: Remember POI categories?

Hi,
Is there (or could there be) a way in which the site could remember which POI categories you were interested in, so that you could come back from time to time, download up-to-date copies of them and dump them on the box, without having to go through the list each time remembering all the bits you were interested in?

Just a thought...

Martin

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject:

Nice idea.

At the moment, because I do some fairly esoteric mixing and merging of categories to get what I want, I have to have a text file saved on my PC to remind me exactly what to download each time!

As I see it, the perfect solution would be to come to the normal selection page with your last selection still ticked, but so you can add and take away as normal. I wonder if it is possible?

PeterSm · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I too think this would be neat..

I tend to download and update my POI's on a regular basis and have written a basic batch script to handle it all..

I downlaod the POI's, Speed Camers etc and unzip them all into a single folder then just run the script to copy those I want to a LoadToSatNav folder/Group folders etc renaming as I go along as well and also clean up in my wake , which I then use as input to POILoader (For my Garmin)

Every so often I then go back through whats left and update the script for next time......

It would be great then if say something userid based could remember that you want CSV format, UK, box 1,3,5,6,7,8,9 etc ticked but guess you'll have to store everyones preferences in the database or a cookie etc....

andy-c1 · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

yeah that would be a great idea as i guess mostly at what i want and mostly end up having to delete the 1's i don't need
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Tom59 · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

I also use a simple Word document to keep a list of what POI I currently have installed and when it was updated. A bit time consuming, but works well for controlling the little blighters!

Evil or Very Mad

That was until last night Evil or Very Mad

Our POI have now been given the suffix PGPSW which makes it easier for people to distinguish which supplier their POI have come from. I personally did not have a problem as I only use the best available, PGPSW!
I updated my out of date ones last night, but realised earlier today that I now have duplicates e.g. "Shell" and also "Shell PGPSW", so I have had to have a complete clear out and start again.

Ho Hum, such is life Crying

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MrSoapsud · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

Glad it's not just me then! It appears that it remembers your preference for which device type (unlike the safety camera page) but not the files themselves.

I guess one could script fetching the individual categories if there was a URL for them, but the site combines them into a zip file for you so you can't do that either...

gpsfox · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

there was a way for this to be done via the program POI edit but the powers to be stopped that i think they should bring it back

heres proof http://poiedit.com/sites.htm

Daggers · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

gpsfox · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

here is a copy of the script i use after downloading main categories

this needs to be saves as a .bat file (ie “copy.bat”)

@echo off
xcopy /Y /u "c:\POIS\POIs\*.csv" "c:\POIS\keep"

you can change the ,locations to suite your needs the first part is the source and the second and if u are a tom-tom user change the csv to ov2
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