tomtom 5 upgrade for PNA

chippy24 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2007 Posts: 50

Hi, I have put tomtom 5 upgrade onto my medion md96800/PNA250, everything works fine expect I cannot seem to find the POI's on the discs to put onto the storage card. I presumed they would be on the Great Britain plus map disc and would be stored there!
Has anyone an idea as to how I can open up the supposed POI's with upgrade pack????
thanks

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

I'm no expert on Navigator on PDAs, but AFAIK all TomTom software stores the built-in POIs as a single file called 'poi.dat' which is inside the named map folder ("Western Europe", "Great Britain" etc.). Some devices have an additional 'crpoi.dat' file too.

aj2052 · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:20 am Post subject:

Its a long time since i used TTN5, but if i remember (and i may be wrong) i think if you add.old to the poi.dat and add the pgpsw POIs to the map directory it should work, if it doesnt you can simply remove the added POIs and reinstate poi.dat.old to original poi.dat without losing anything,
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mikealder · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:45 am Post subject:

The TTN5 works in the same way as the PNA devices with respect to the POI files.
You can either remove the file POI.dat from the map folder or leave it alone, there is no advantage to either option to be honest.

You can suplement the built in POI files by adding custom POI files to the map folder, the files should be in the ov2 file format, each POI category comprises of the .ov2 file which contains the location data and a bmp file which is the icon.

Your device can accept upto 39 custom POI categories, if you exceed this level the software does strange things with some of the POI categories disapearing. To get some decent quality POI files have a look at This page, just remember the limit of 39 so use the "Combine Sub-cats" option to reduce the number of Custom POI Files - Mike

aj2052 · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

I am fairly sure that on my PDA if the poi.dat file was left as is. It would show some duplicate but not all POI listings, I know you could still select which to show but stll confusing, hence adding .old to avoid pickup, anyway I am not going back to TTN5 just to prove a point.
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chippy24 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2007 Posts: 50

Thanks everyone, all sorted and working now

aj2052 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:21 pm Post subject:

how was it sorted
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chippy24 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2007 Posts: 50

Hi, Well it appears that when we loaded the maps onto the sd card the original download was corrupted. Reformatting the sd card and reinstalling the map data cleared up the problem, but thanks guys for your offers of help in tring to resolve the issue

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