poi download

waine · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 2

hi can someone let me know when are you going to sort out the problem with the poi ive got a tom tom ive downloaded the cat file but keep getting curupt file when i open it when are you going to sort this out i love my poi to be up to date many thanks Crying or Very sad

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

What cat file? You should get a zip file with the POI files in.

What are you trying to downlaod? What browser are you using? If not using IE, try IE.

Ouit of the thousands of user here you are the only one to complain!!

Esparkie · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

In the past, I've also had a problem opening the downloaded zip file, Windows giving me an error that the file format was either corrupted or unrecgonised (can't remember which). I was using IE7 and a know that there is sometimes an issue with this version, as stated on the download POI page. I used a different computer running IE6 and the problem went away. I have since then successfully downloaded other POIs using IE7. I don't know if the problem is related to the number of POI cats/subcats downloaded in one go as I was downloading quite a lot first time round.

BTW, I'm not complaining. Although I'm a subscribing member, I realise that the general POIs are provided as a free service.

Cheers,

Mark

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

Esparkie · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

Yes, I used the Show Link option and it worked; the zip file downloaded. Then when I tried to open it, and I got the error message.

Like I said, wasn't too much of a headache. Used a different machine and got the POIs I wanted.

aj2052 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:30 am Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:05 am Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:

I have always used the link and have just tried again on one category and got the usual blank page, but Paul to put the situation in its true perspective, it would appear from the vast amount of postings which I have followed avidly, is that the problem does not occur with garmin users and is predomintly with tomtom users with ov2 files,
Not being familiar with garmin do these use csv files, I personally have raised this several times and must admit that the only people as far as I can see from sigs that say it works are garmin users. perhaps there is a clue there to resolvement because it it such a shame that this is the only issue that is spoiling such a good database.

Esparkie · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject:

I have just tried the same. I clicked on every category and asked to download as separate sub categories using the Show Link option. No problem - zip filed downloaded and opened Smile

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I then tried the same but with the categories/sub categories rolled up into one, again using the Show Link option. This time I just got the IE screen that there is something wrong and it can't access the page.

Just posting for info!

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

Esparkie · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

I use IE7. Downloading the OV2 files. So, if you select every category and download as a combined category using the Show Link option, you don't have a problem? Weird, why it should be doing it to me! Not that, practically, you would want to do that!

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

Phill perhaps thats where a misunderstanding occured between us in that i took you to task for saying that the op was the first to complain, In my view everbody was talking about combined downloads and I cannot remember anybody complaining about single category downloading. but that aside surely whether they be csv or ov2 surely if the quantities are similiar then surely the file size would be similar, but there also seems to be two different problems here.
1) in one instance when downloading a lot of categories you go to a blank page and secondly
2) if you download say 30 0r 40 sub categories you seem to get a corrupt file
Bearing in mind that this is Ov2 files using combined and show link and in my case ie7.
Does anyone else find this the case

chris-t · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 22, 2007 Posts: 2

I'm trying to download several POI subcategories for a TOMTOM using IE 6, each time I download the POIs.zip file it only contains one file POIs which is 43k in size. Anybody have any ideas.

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