Installing POI's on a Becker Z205 (IGo8)

dougproctor

Anyone with any experience on doing this please? My Becker has IGo8 installed and want to add some more POI's from here. The file structure is not the same as TomTom or Garmin which I am used to. Many sites have instructions is German which is quite useful! Crying or Very sad

Thanks
Doug
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GerryC · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

On the Speed camera download page, there are instructions for copying iGo files for Binatone, Blaupunkt and iGo MyWay. One of these may be the same as your Becker or you may be able to use them as a guide.

Also, have a look in the NavNGo iGO section of the forum. I haven't used it personally so don't really know what to look for.
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Pocketgps · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject:

On my iGO 6 I used a program called

iGO POI Explorer

Not sure if it works with iGO 8

The file it changed in iGO 6 was called iGO.db

If that file is present in iGO 8 it may work.

dougproctor · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject: Drowning slowly.......

Hi guys,
Thanks. With the speed camera database I downloaded some text files and put them in the Speedcam folder as per the installation instructions. I did this and removed a speedcam update.spud file. I was expecting it to reproduce this file on resetting the unit and it did but created two files speedcam.spdb with 138Kb data and a Speedcam updates.spud with 0kb in it.
I remember back with another unit that had this spud file business and a 0 size and cannot remember how i solved it. It must be at least 12 GPS units ago - about 12 months!!!!
On the normal POI front, I downloaded from another site some files with a kml and kns suffix which puts icons on the map but they have a shared bmp file which is rather useful. I would rather use the POI's from here that have the associated bmp file with them but theses are not kml or kns.
Any ideas please?
Doug
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dougproctor · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:56 pm Post subject: Drowning slowly.......

Hi guys,
Thanks. With the speed camera database I downloaded some text files and put them in the Speedcam folder as per the installation instructions. I did this and removed a speedcam update.spud file. I was expecting it to reproduce this file on resetting the unit and it did but created two files speedcam.spdb with 138Kb data and a Speedcam updates.spud with 0kb in it.
I remember back with another unit that had this spud file business and a 0 size and cannot remember how i solved it. It must be at least 12 GPS units ago - about 12 months!!!!
On the normal POI front, I downloaded from another site some files with a kml and kns suffix which puts icons on the map but they have a shared bmp file which is rather useful. I would rather use the POI's from here that have the associated bmp file with them but theses are not kml or kns.
Any ideas please?
Doug
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Pocketgps · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject:

I have noticed from your posts that you seem to change your gps about every other week Laughing

Why so many Question

dougproctor · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject:

Uhmmmmmmmmmmmm.... boredom! I think this one is to stay - at least my wife says or i might be missing bits of my anatomy!

Think i have sorted out the problem with the spud file. Dug up my old thread where I had the same problem and Sally-Ann helped me. Will follow that one.
Still want to add the other POI's from here to the unit if anyone has any ideas?
Doug
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AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Hi dougprocter,
If I understand correctly, you have (or will have) POI's in one format and you wish to change them to a different format so that your Beckler will load them?

If this is correct try either PoiEdit or PoiEditor. Both programs change file formats of POI's, One is PC based and you will have to download it to your PC, the other is on-line based and does it on the fly. Can't remember which one is which though but fairly sure both do change files to the GogleMaps .kml format.

Not being familiar with iGO nor Beckler, I fear that this information may be of little value.

Good luck, AliOnHols.
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dougproctor · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject:

Hi, thanks for that. Think I have done it now, just need a speed camera to test them with.
Doug
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M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject:

Doug
The .spdb file is the file that Igo generates from the PGPSW .txt file. The .spud file is where your user input speedcams go so is zero length unless you enter your own speedcams..

dougproctor · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:33 am Post subject:

You get an icon for all the speed cams in the spdb and spud file all the time, (Zoom level permitting). I assume that your spdf file type is a mistype for spdb as I've not heard of the typr spdf.
The software does not alert for a cam on flyover or simulate, but the icons should show and exactly what it looks like depends on the skin, and what icon the skin designer has used. I believe in the standard skin, you need a GPS fix before you can enable cams. The alert is a popup box with an icon depicting the cam type, its speed and distance to go. Specs only pop up when you reach them, they do not give advance warning.

dougproctor · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:43 am Post subject:

Thank you again, appreciated. It was a misspelling!! I did the simulation in the office with no gps fix so perhaps that's why they did not appear.
Am going to put them back on again now and give it a run past a "real" camera. The Becker has a built in alert - would this activate for the PGPSW cameras?
Regards
Doug
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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

Doug.
The camera icons should appear on the map all the time regardless of alert settings, even without a fix. The menu command to turn on the alerts is something like Settings ~ Warnings ~ Speed Camera Warning. The last one is only visible when you have a fix for reasons best known to Igo.

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Hi dougprocter and M8TJT, please satisfy my curiosity here.

When I looked at buying a Beckler SatNav about a year ago I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't let me import my own POI's from an external source, i.e. Safety Cam databases. I assumed, probably wrongly, that it had something to do with being manufactured close to Switzerland and that they would lose sales if Safety Cams could be added.

Have Beckler changed their policy on this or have you found a work-around or should I have bought a Beckler?
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