postcode poi ov2

mike007 · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 70

hi,can a file be made for tom tom go to make a poi list if you have the full address and postcodes?

timmyo · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 20, 2004 Posts: 76

You could use www.streetmap.co.uk to get the Lat Long from the address and then use POIEdit to create ov2 files to transfer manually to the TTG.

MikeB · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

Chack out this thread if all you want is full postcode search on TomTom,
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snapper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 17

I have downloaded your files, for some reason I cn't get a some post codes for example CM16 6AA

WHERE IS THIS HIDING. THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT MISSING. aM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
fILES DOWNLOaded are

Postcodes_Anglia.zip
Postcodes_Midlands.zip
Postcodes_S_Central.zip
Postcodes_SE_&_London.zip

timmyo · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 20, 2004 Posts: 76

You could convert one of the files to .asc and edit it with Wordpad and add an entry for that postcode. Accoring to Streepmap.co.uk the Lat Long is:
Lat 51.713550
Long 0.154965

then convert it back to ov2 and put it on TTG

snapper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 17

This means a lot of work to do this to all the postcodes missing.

I want to know if I have downloaded right. Is there a restriction on how many you can have, my card is 256,.

Seems pointless having some and not others

timmyo · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 20, 2004 Posts: 76

It's well documented in other threads that there is a maximum limit to the number of additional POI files TTG will recognise (even if you fit more on your card) - I think th etotal limit is 81 or thereabouts, therefore if you download all of the postcode files from the POI area on this site then once you extract them you ave about 110+ files - too many.

to get around this I compiled them in to 'Regional' files - see the post 'Amalgamated Postcode Files' which mean that you have access to all of the postcodes which are in the 100+ files but in fewer, larger, slower-searching files.

It may be that those original files have some ommisions - it wouldn't be surprising as I think they were the work of one person originally.

snapper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 17

These are the files I have, seems there are a lot of omissions

snapper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 17

It's well documented in other threads that there is a maximum limit to the number of additional POI files TTG will recognise (even if you fit more on your card) - I think th etotal limit is 81 or thereabouts, therefore if you download all of the postcode files from the POI area on this site then once you extract them you ave about 110+ files - too many.

to get around this I compiled them in to 'Regional' files - see the post 'Amalgamated Postcode Files' which mean that you have access to all of the postcodes which are in the 100+ files but in fewer, larger, slower-searching files.

This is the point I assume this is a way to get round only having 81 additinal files, with the above method can't you add them all?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Yes if your SD card is big enough.

They will not fit on the 128Mb card that came with the unit.

If you are going to use the TTG in Europe you will need a bigger card just to install the Major Roads of Europe maps that came on the CD with TTG.

snapper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 17

I have a bigger card, my issue is that there are lots of postcodes missing, unless I am doing something wrong

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