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shaung5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 25

Hello people.

I got my tom tom go last saturday and have browsed this very usefull website since.. Today i got hold af a 256 mb sd card to load up even more :-)

The poi's I have found very usefull and this has been a great place to start.
I have a slight problem (well not for me) but i use a mac. I visited poiplace.co.uk and downloaded a selection of plumbers merchants but I cannot convert as the tool is for windows :-( I have renamed the file to ov2 but when i try to search 'plumbers merchants' the poi cannot be found.

If anyone can help and maybe download the plumbers merchants file and convert, i would really appreciate it.

Many thanks in advance.

shaun

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

I believe that Mac users utilise a utility called TamTam. This can be found at http://www.equinux.com/us/products/moresw/tamtam.html

I don't use it myself, so cannot vouch for it.

Hope it helps.
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bestyman · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Im also a plumber (from leeds) and have the plumbers merchhants ov.2 file already . Im not sure exactly what you want as I know nothing about Macs . Is it just the file in ov.2 format that you want? If so let me know and I will email it to you . Sorry if ive misundersttod you .
Mark

shaung5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 25

Hi thanks for the replies. I have downloaded and registered tam tam tho its not that much use for the conversions to ov2 etc.

Bestyman if possible, could you email the plumbers merchants. ov2 and the plumbers merchants.bmp to me please @ sl@shaun.co.uk

thanks very much

shaun

bestyman · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:

Me again,
Are you saying that you have already put the plumbers merchant ov.2 file on the tomtom but it cannot find it??? if so this is because you can onlyy store about 40 POIs on the tomtom go , regardless of the size of the SD card otherwise they do not show up.
Let me know
Mark

shaung5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 25

hello mate, no I dont have that many on there its just that when i downloaded it from the poiplace I didnt have the gizmo to convert it (from asc to ov2). All i need is the two files and i can stick it on.

see other post.

thanks again

shaun

bestyman · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Check your email, just sent you it .

I made the bitmap myself so its not perfect but works ok for me. If your in the know you could always make a better one.

If the ov.2 file is slightly bigger than expected thats cos ive added a few to it myself mainly in the leeds area.
Any probs get back to me.

I assume that your a plumber, do you have any plumbing software?

Also for anyone reading this Im looking for a telephone answering machine ( software for PC) that will divert calls to a mobile. Do they make such a program as BT is fleecing me for the call diverts and I could divert much cheaper through 18866 if this was possible.

Shaung5, get back to me if any probs.

Mark

shaung5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 25

Hi mark.

Just waiting on the email now, nothing here yet. I dont have any plumbing software , sorry and as for the answering machine software, not sure either.

Yes I am a plumber for my sins, mainly contracting for sainsbury's imagine my surprise when i found that someone had done the js poi saves me getting lost up and down the country from now one :-) I had to go to js kensington last sunday night and the tom tom led me straight there, what a piece of kit. Better than any bendin g machine :-)

shaun

bestyman · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Whoops silly me, first plumbers merchants I sent you was not an OV.2 file, sorry.

I have resent it...just as well u didn`t get the first email.
Mark

boris · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

I am not clever enough to know if this helps, and hopefully you are now all sorted out, but there are loads of POI catagories at www.poidownload.com (or is it .co.uk), and they are in .asc format, BUT, you can download a free tool that you just drag the file over and it converts it to .ov2

Maybe not of interest to you now, but could be useful in the future. The site has so many catagories it's worth checking out anyway.

boris

shaung5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 25

cheers boris, that was the one i was using but had the mac pc conflict going on.

cheers

shaun

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