Managing Maps and POI's

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

Hi there !

Just got a TOMTOM GO with BENELUX map, and some POI's for fuel stations, for example.

I'd like to know if there is any PC sowftware available to "read", open the BENELUX map I transfered on my PC, and add the fuel station POI's on it to locate them.

In fact, the purpose is to select the fuel station brand I want from that POI, and display them on the Map, on my PC.

Is there any tool doing this ?
Any tool that can allow you to "browse" your Map on a PC ?

Hope you can help !

rkm_hm · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:

I don't know of any way of displaying the TomTom maps per se on a PC.

However, you may be able to do what you want if you use MS Autoroute. You'd be using Autoroute's map, of course, but you could superimpose POI's from TTG onto it.

This will only work with add-on POI's - not with those which come as standard with the TTG maps. If you've got an .ov2 file, you can use one of the free utilities to convert this into a text file in .csv format. You can then import this .csv file into Autoroute as a set of 'Push Pins' which will be displayed on the Autoroute map on your PC.

Is this any good?

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

Anybody else knows about how to display TOMTOM GO maps and POI's on a PC, to make POI management easier from the PC, and then copy them to TOMTOM GO ?

Thanks !

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

OH ... I see your program is running on PocketPC ...
Any program running on a PC ?

I do not have PDA Pocket PC anymore !!!!

Thanks !

rkm_hm · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 11:56 am Post subject:

No, my reference to AutoRoute relates to a desktop PC - not a Pocket PC.

TomTom's maps seem to be in some sort of encrypted format - and no-one has so far admitted to having found a way to decode them!

AutoRoutes maps are very similar to TomTom maps, right down to street level detail - and any TomTom POI which you convert to an AutoRoute PushPin will display in exactly the right place on AutoRoute.

But you would have a acquire a copy of AutoRoute to be able to do it - UK price about 50 UKP.

[You can go the other way, too. If you want to create a set of POI's for TTG, it's much easier to mark the locations in AutoRoute on your PC screen (where you can see a much larger area in detail) - and then convert them to POI's and copy them to your SD card.

Sniff · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject:

rkm_hm · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

Sniff · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:

rkm_hm, thanks for the info...I will give it a go this weekend :D

Sniff · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

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