Trouble instaling Custom POI's on TT One V3

a2z · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi All,

Had to upgrade by PDA based TT Navigator 6 as it was not orange juice proof.

Just bought a TT one V3 Europe. On my last system I had an .ov2 file and .bmp icon for them listing all the sites I have to visit. I created this via a postcode search off an excel spreadsheet via MS autoroute and then converted from .axe to .ov2 using "POI Converter".

Copied these files over to my new system, into the Western Europe Map folder. It is recognised on the POI list but there are no icons on the map (I used to browse the map for the icon of a site and then navigate to that point). I also try to navigate to a POI and it stated that there are no POI's present.

So....

Have I copied the files to the corrct folder?
Has the POI conversion changed for my new system?
How to I get the icons to display on the map (used to be a yellow box with a black asterisk.
Am I just being thick? (quite short odds on this one!)

Thanks.

Oldboy

a2z · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks.

Tried it and nothing.

No icons appear on the map.

When I go to "Find POI near me", the category I created is on the list along with a red square icon. Select it and teh next screen says "No POI found"

Daggers · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

The red square icon is the default icon. It normally indicates that you do not have a matching .bmp file for your .ov2. You must have one of each, with exactly the same name. I.e if you have a POI file called abcd.ov2, there must also be a matching abcd.bmp file. This file must contain an image which is 22x22 pixels in size.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

Two things going wrong then...
The red square is easy... that means that the icon file isn't being recognised.

This will be because either:
It is a correct format .bmp file but hasn't been named correctly (it must match the ov2 file's name exactly, apart from the three letter extension),

or...
It is in a format the TT doesn't understand. It has to be a genuine bitmap file, exactly 22x22 pixels square. In early software it had to be 256 colour depth (8 bit) but now it can be 16 bit too. If its not right, it can be opened in a "paint" program, edited, and re-saved in the correct size/format.

The actual data file could be trickier. It's just not understanding the data format. Can you get it to open in POI edit and see your records?
If so, you will then be able to re-save it in compatible TT format.

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