Missing POI icons

cartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 49

Just upgraded to Navcore 8.350 & UK map 830.2305 on my GO530
A curious thing has happened - some of my icons no longer show on the map e.g. I had my own British Rail symbol on a 22x22 bmp for railway stations. Now I can search for a station using Find on the map menu & when I select it, the icon appears ok on the first screen (which shows Back, Select etc. on a condensed street map).
However, when I click 'select' for the proper map, the label appears but not the icon.
When using a live route with directions etc., the icon is shown & the audible warning sounds.
The odd thing is that it doesn't do it with all my POI's. Any suggestions please ?

Pocketgps · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject:

Being as this is one of yours, I presume you still have the original icon on your pc. I would Connect the GO to your main pc via Explorer, delete the one on the GO then copy and paste the one off your pc back to the GO.

mikealder · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:15 pm Post subject:

Is the icon pure red in colour? if so you might have to change it to slightly off red as TomTom treats pure red as transparant - Mike

cartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 49

Thanks for the replies - I've deleted all my POI's & reinstalled from my PC as suggested & it seems to have worked - certainly the 2 that wouldn't show before do now - but as I have 141 categories I havn't checked them all yet ! Rolling Eyes

dhn · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject:

That's a different issue. Your unit 'hits the wall' if you try to display too many poi categories at once. Further, the map refresh is slowed down considerably the more poi's the unit tries to show.

Many have no more than 3 or 4 showing at once.
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cartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 49

dhn - the odd thing about this is that even with all those POI's , everything worked ok until I upgraded - all POI's displayed & no significant slowing down Rolling Eyes

mikealder · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject:

The limit for custom POI categories is 169 AFAIK although its a while since this figure was tested on a device, it could be this limit has been reduced, are all 141 categories now showing up correctly on the device or have some other disapeared?
Generally displaying lots of POI files does slow the map refresh rate down slightly which is why we recommend not to have them active as displayed on the map (you can still use them though even if not active) - Mike

DennisN · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

It'll be more than 141 if he has our speed cameras.
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cartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 49

Mike & Dennis
I've put 170 poi's on now (including your cameras) & I'll wade through them & see if they all show or if there is a limit, & let you know.

DennisN · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject:

Crikey! I don't have time to look for 170 POIs - all I can manage is one - Public Toilets!! Mr. Green

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Pocketgps · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

Like I said, I only need the one. Need being the operative word! Laughing

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cartman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 49

I don't actually want 170 - it was just a test to see how many TT would take before it fell over !
I do really use quite a few though - PGPSW cameras, all airports/airfields (I'm in the aviation business), bus garages ( hobby !) , and JD Wetherspoons ( to feed me whilst indulging my hobby Wink

Thanks for your interest tho' Cool

DennisN · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

GerryC · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:09 am Post subject:

At a wild stab at bringing the discussion back on topic Laughing

, are you still seeing the 'invisible' POI icons?

Are you seeing the triangle at the bottom of the icon on the map? Do you just see it when you go through the "Find POI" menu or can you see it just by browsing the map in that area? Confused

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