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dougconran
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:55 am Post subject: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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Firstly, a big thanks to MaFt for a sterling job on producing so many POIs. Not entirely sure that I'll want to visit the Hungry Horse in Newton Abbot - but you never know.
FYI - www.multimap.co.uk shows latitude & longitude as part of a range of information under the map location, there is no need to go to another screen. I find this a bit easier than streetmap.
A Question - there is an obvious difference in the numbeer of columns between the straightforward location POIs such as Hungry Horse and the speed camera ones. I know that the figure after the @ is the legal speed limit at that point, what is the figure immediately before the @?
Secondly, is anyone aware of any way of being able to get the embedded POI icons to show, particularly the petrol station ones? It would be really useful to be able to see the location of upcoming stations on the major, non-motorway, roads. Other than creating a specific custom POI for them does anyone have any ideas?
Thirdly, am I right in thinking that the only icons that show in navigation mode are those that have proximity alerts? Are all others just there so that you can navigate to them?
TIA
Doug
PS - just seen your new i3 web pages. They're not fancy but do the job - thanks |
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MaFt
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Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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| dougconran wrote: | | Firstly, a big thanks to MaFt for a sterling job on producing so many POIs. Not entirely sure that I'll want to visit the Hungry Horse in Newton Abbot - but you never know. |
no probs - thanks to everyone who let me use their tom tom ov2 files! the hungry horse were what someone emailed me that they had edited so thought i may as well include it (along with football grounds [i HATE football with a passion but figured there'd be poeple who would want them])
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FYI - www.multimap.co.uk shows latitude & longitude as part of a range of information under the map location, there is no need to go to another screen. I find this a bit easier than streetmap.
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what i like about street map is you can select an actual spot and it puts an arrow there so you have no doubt where the lat/long are refferring to
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A Question - there is an obvious difference in the numbeer of columns between the straightforward location POIs such as Hungry Horse and the speed camera ones. I know that the figure after the @ is the legal speed limit at that point, what is the figure immediately before the @?
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there are actually still only 3 columns, but the speed cam ones have extra detail (i.e. the speed!) the figure before the @ is simply a reference number for the camera e.g. GATSO:5688@30 is Gatso speed camera no. 5688 which is in a 30 zone. maybepocket gps can expand on that or tell me i'm wrong?
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Secondly, is anyone aware of any way of being able to get the embedded POI icons to show, particularly the petrol station ones? It would be really useful to be able to see the location of upcoming stations on the major, non-motorway, roads. Other than creating a specific custom POI for them does anyone have any ideas?
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this was covered elsewhere i think and garmin's official line is that "it was felt the general consensus was this would clog up the screen". not sure i agree with them, but if enough people mention it maybe they can change their poi loader to incue an option of 'show icon for this csv file during navigation mode'? either that or when you realise you're short on petrol in the middle of newton abbot after eating a hungry horse(?!!) you can go to menu and then 'find nearby' and look for petrol stations, hit 'navigate' and set it as a via-point (assuming you're already navigating somewhere)
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Thirdly, am I right in thinking that the only icons that show in navigation mode are those that have proximity alerts? Are all others just there so that you can navigate to them?
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yeah, i think so...
MaFt
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PS - just seen your new i3 web pages. They're not fancy but do the job - thanks |
they're not great but it does the job like you say! but considering i knocked them up in half an hour whilst at work... 
still, 217 visitors in 2 days makes it the most popular site i've ever made!!
cheers |
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Almahadeus
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Site great in content and that's what counts. I hope that you'll eventually be able to get something back from it (like being able to put an ad banner or two).  but for now ....thank you. |
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danoli
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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| dougconran wrote: | | A Question - there is an obvious difference in the numbeer of columns between the straightforward location POIs such as Hungry Horse and the speed camera ones. I know that the figure after the @ is the legal speed limit at that point, what is the figure immediately before the @? |
Not sure if it has been mentioned here before, appologies if it has. The custom POI's only use three of the available 4 columns for the i3, they are, lat/long & name
If you add a 4th column to your POI csv file, you can import additional details such as an address, phone number or whatever you want.
The name field holds 30 characters
The additional details field holds somewhere around 84 characters and displays slightly smaller in the screen. It is basically the same field that the i3 uses for the address when saving a waypoint.
I use my own custom POI file for my customers. The name field has the customers name or business name whereas I use the details filed to store the address and phone number and any other relevant info.
I either use streetmap or google maps to get the details to input into a spreadsheet for output to the i3 or just save the waypoint (when at the customers) and later extract it from the i3 to then put into the customer spreadsheet to input into the i3 in the correct format.
I find this much easier that using the waypoints as I can catagorise my customers into seperate files which makes locating a customer much easier. |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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Danoli, great info there - where did you find that out from?
MaFt |
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danoli
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: Re: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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| MaFt wrote: | Danoli, great info there - where did you find that out from?
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Trial and error really. When I was saving a waypoint from a searched postcode I was curious how the full address was stored as a seperate chunk of data so guessed it was feasable. I got the field lengths for just creating blag entries of various sizes till it hit a limit. Not sure if I hit a screen limit or memory limit but 84 characters can store a lot of info.
Hope you find it of use |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: Re: Great POIs - thanks MaFt (and some questions) |
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| danoli wrote: |
Hope you find it of use |
:D good work fella :D |
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Lewy
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Sorry MaFt m8 but I like football so I thought i'd send you everything I had done 
What is on your poi list at the moment? just wondering if you have amended it recently? |
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MaFt
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| Lewy wrote: | | What is on your poi list at the moment? just wondering if you have amended it recently? |
not had chance for any big additions, just a few alterations to pin point the places (e.g. asda's marked on other side of roads, new kfc's etc)
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