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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:26 am Post subject: CPL5 Tips, Tricks & Observations
Hi all
Had CPL4 for a year, upgraded to CPL5 a couple of days ago. Really like it a lot, but there are always one or two niggles so I thought this may prove interesting to the curious if nothing else. Of course if anyone has any better/other ideas please join in (worth a sticky?)
Problem: despite "Display POI's" being selected in the Tools>Options>MAP settings, when running from GPS tracks sometimes POI's appear and sometimes not. (This may also apply to live driving, yet to confirm.)
Observation: In the "Where am I" map view, whilst running the gps track, check Options>Map and notice POI display box unticked and greyed out!
Trick: Switch to 3D view, note POI's are displayed. Check Options>Map and notice POI display is now ticked. Go back to "Where am I" and the POI box remains ticked and POI's show up on screen!
Problem: It is not possible to set an "avoid" on a road on an itinerary unless you have an active GPS lock. This can rob the system of some flexibility when planning a route at home/in the office before going to the car where the gps receiver is kept.
Observation: If you are planning at home/office it is probably more sensible to use waypoints anyway to guide a particular route.
Trick: If you play back a gps track file cpl5 will let you pick avoids and view the routing as it thinks it has a gps lock even if no receiver is present. Record a 30 second stationary track outside your home and another outside your office, set super slow playback speed for tracks and play/pause them to allow you to test detours whilst planning.
Problem: CPL5 comes with loads of POI's (hurrah!) but they can clog and overlay each other in town centres so you just see the multi-poi "P" symbol.
Observation: You want all the POI's loaded so you can search for them if you suddenly need to find a local theatre (or whatever) but don't want them displaying all the time. Wouldn't it be great if cpl5 allowed you to tick which ones you wanted on the map.
Trick: The full UK map area is just under 90MB. On a cheap 256mb SD card you could load it twice. Build a map with the full POI's and download to Storage Card. Rename /Storage Card/COPILOT to /Storage Card/COPILOT-full (or some such). Rebuild a map on the desktop with minimal POI's (say just safety cameras and petrol stations). Send to storage card. CPL5 uses this mini-poi system BUT if you ever find yourself needing the full monty, rename COPILOT to COPILOT-mini, COPILOT-full to COPILOT and you have the lot in 30 seconds!. You could copy COPILOT/svae/favorite over too if necessary.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:
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Problem: despite "Display POI's" being selected in the Tools>Options>MAP settings, when running from GPS tracks sometimes POI's appear and sometimes not. (This may also apply to live driving, yet to confirm.)
My understanding is that they don't disappear. They just render slowly. and sometimes don't keep up with the map redraw. Defeats the purpose somehow, though. _________________ Lutz
OK, after a bunch of testing, it appears that you are more likely to get POI's displaying in 3D view than in 2D "where am I" view but they can appear and disappear in both.
Consistent with my earlier comments, if you are not getting them in 2D but switch to 3D and back to 2D they usually reappear but frequently not for long.
Even if they do render in 3D they sometimes vanish even when no map redraw has been issued, just an arrow move. This makes no sense as it must have taken more cpu to erase them than to leave things as they are.
When they are not being displayed, looking at Tools>Options>Map will show the "Display POIs" box unticked and greyed out.
This is very frustrating as cpl5 is very good overall.
Lutz/Dave/Darren - any chance you could take this up with ALK & see if anything is tweakable to keep the POI's on screen?
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