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targaw
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:42 pm    Post subject: How to put POIs on my Tom Tom go 720 Reply with quote

Hi

Very new to this, when I say new, have had Sat Nav for years but never used the POIs. Someone told me about this site and I have now downloaded all the POIs I like the look of to my PC.

Big problem now, how do I transfer them to my Sat Nav.

Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, and welcome. Smile

If you go to This page, you will find a Video Guide on how to install the Camera Files. (Note that this is the same method, whether it is an 'ordinary' POI or a Camera POI).

There is also an excellent written Guide Here.

Proximity warnings are an Optional feature, and most users only use POIs for navigating to, and don't use the Warning feature.

Hope that helps. If not we'll try to answer any questions you have.

I've moved the Topic to a more appropriate location.[/b]
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Oldboy, will give it a go.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you, watched the video and have managed to do it.

Sorry another little question. I see now I have loads that I don't really need within each category, how do I delete those ones?

Thanks again.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you mean individual locations within a sub-category, or a sub-category within a merged file?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I mean individual shops for instance that we would never go into anyway.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you mean, as an example, All Tescos or just the Tesco in Hastings?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:50 am    Post subject: Re: How to put POIs on my Tom Tom go 720 Reply with quote

targaw wrote:
Hi

I have now downloaded all the POIs I like the look of

Just be aware that if you have installed "all the POIs you like the look of", you may be pushing the ability of your 720.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

targaw wrote:
... individual shops ...

M8TJT wrote:
... just the Tesco in Hastings?


You can edit out individual entries with a program such as POIEdit
However, as the POI files are relatively small, I would have thought it would be hardly worth all the effort. Also there might come a day that you need one of those locations.

The way that POIs are handled by the older TTs, makes negligible impact on the working of the PND.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:58 am    Post subject: Re: How to put POIs on my Tom Tom go 720 Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
Just be aware that if you have installed "all the POIs you like the look of", you may be pushing the ability of your 720.
There is a finite number of POI categories the device can handle. This is the reason that there is the ability to merge subcategories.

All that happens is the excess just don't appear in the category list
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I know. Plus don't they also slow the device down if they are all shown on the map?

"All the POIs I like the look of" just might be every POI except Cider Makers. Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks everyone I think then I will just leave well alone, I am pleased that thanks to your guidance I have the info on there.
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