Difficulties with POI download webpage today

aj2052 · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:39 am Post subject:

Lutz Wrote:

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

I'm having difficulty viewing the City of St Davids POIs except at certain locations and Zoom.
Anyone else having problems with this location?

Centre Latitude: 51.8827 Longitude: -5.2705

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

Normally I can see them at 2000ft zoom, today only at 200ft and only if I move the map around!

If I'm lucky I can see four Icons in total.

Other areas in Wales seem to be working normally!

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

Centre Latitude: 51.8810 Longitude: -5.2659

Could somebody else try the POI map at that location and see if they can see the icons - The Cathedral for one - and at what zoom level.
Thanks

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject:

In Firefox 1.5 I see the POI icons from a zoom level of 500m and closer (both the 500m and 1km scale has "2000ft" marked).

In IE6 at that location I don't see any icons at all at any zoom level, but there is a Exclamation

message at the bottom saying "Errors in page".

If I look at central London in IE6, I do see the icons at zooms of 500m and closer, but still get lots of "Errors on page" messages as the map is loading.

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

Thanks for trying.
I can see all UK at 2000feet and below but not the City of St Davids!

I use IE7.

aj2052 · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:18 am Post subject:

Whoopee, managed to download fuel as combined categoey today, but still cannot download shopping,having usual problem of "page cannot be displayed" and then when refreshed get "Error in selection criteria" please dont bother suggesting a workround Ive tried them all, the only solution is to fix the flaming thing.

Daggers · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

I seem to be having more frequent problems with the POI download page at the moment, just like Andy did at the very beginning of this topic. I rarely get to see the list of POIs to download; I just see the message "Loading POI Categories...", and nothing ever loads.

Whatever I do, it doesn't seem to make much difference - CTRL + Refresh, logging out & back in again, deleting my temporary internet files, typing the URL directly rather than following a link ... I've tried all of these in various combinations, but to no avail.

I occasionally do see the full list, but it appears to be fairly random, and only after several attempts to reload the page. Often I just have to give up.

I'm using Internet Explorer; the problem seems to occur with both IE6 & IE7, although IE7 seems to be slightly worse.

Has anyone got any ideas?

andydigital44 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2005 Posts: 193

Use a decent browser like Firefox Wink

I know even Firefox has its fair share of problems, but it works fine for me with the POI database. Actually Firefox is my main browser now and 99.99% of sites i visit with it work great. You've also got to love the Adblocking add-ons and stuff you can get for it too.

Daggers · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:

Changing browser is not an option for many people. Company policy dictates that Internet Explorer is the browser installed on company PCs/laptops.

Also, Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser throughout the world, and it's unlikely that this will change in the near future. Unfortunately, this means that web sites have to be compatible with IE in order for the general public to access them successfully.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to how the Download POI page can be seen successfully (& regularly!!) using IE?

lochaber · Lifetime Member Joined: May 08, 2006 Posts: 3

aj2052 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

lochaber, If you are downloading all ATMs, then you are nearly on the max download limit of 23 sub categories if lucky, the ATMs contain 22 entries, I find the best limit is 20, try and redownload limited to 20 and you should find works ok, if you need more the download second file using different name and append in poiedit.
Hope this helps

lochaber · Lifetime Member Joined: May 08, 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks for the reply.

I have been trying agin this morning and discovered some smaller categories will work. So far I have managed to get:
ATM
Fuel
Healthcare
Heritage
Pharmacy
Special Interest
Transport
Wi-Fi

I thought that keeping the categories under one heading would make searching easier on TT but it looks like it's not as simple as that Sad

Looks like the problem POI's are:
Accomodation
Food & Drink
Shopping

I'll try your suggestion.

aj2052 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject:

These are all high entry categories, In some cases I only download the ones I need to limit numbers. see new posting

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