Autoroute & Tomtom 5

DylJones · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 2

Hey all!

I'm new here so go easy on me.....

I did a site and forum search and wasnt' able to find the info I'm after so I'd love to know if anyone here can help me out.

I have Tomtom 5 on my XDA II and Autoroute 2004 on my laptop. In Autoroute I have an .axe file which holds pushpins for all the sites that I support (I'm an IT mobile engineer). there's about 80 in total.

What I want to do is export all the pushpins from this Autoroute file and add them to Tomtom as POI's.

I've tried a few different tools (including POIConverter) but so far haven't had any joy in converting my .axe file to a .csv or .asc file which I can then make a .ov2 file.

Does anyone know how I can do this and post a (reasonably simple Wink

) guide?

Many MANY thanks

DylJones · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 2

DONE IT!

It was, in the end, relatively simple (once you know how...)

I highlighted sections of the map (as my pushpins cover over 200 sq miles or so) and exported each one to Pocket Streets.
Each exported section created an .msp and .psp file.

I used PushpinOV2 to create an .asc, .ov2 and .bmp file for each .psp.

I opened each .asc file and copied the text into one .asc file, making one long list.

I then converted the combined .asc file to an .ov2 file using MakeOV2_v1-1 as supplied with PushpinOV2.

I then copied over the .ov2 and .bmp file to my XDA and it worked great!

I hope this helps anyone in the same position as I was in.

Oldie · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Autoroute & Tomtom 5

IAmMrB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 6

I have an axe file ( 1.84 mg ) that I want to convert to ov2, I have installed poi converter.

I have opened the axe file in POI converter, but I cannot figure out how to conver/export to ov2.

Can anyone explain how to do this please??

Regards :D

xda · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

Once you have opened the file in POI Converter, just save as, in the file type select TomTom .OV2
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IAmMrB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 6

The reason it wouldn’t convert all of the files is because there is a post code issue with the axe file. Ill makes do with it how it is.

I am having problems getting poi converter to use the icon I have chosen.
I have created a bmp and a pic/PICT file, when I replace the pic file with the new 1, and try to start POI converter it tells me to replace the pic.pic.

Even when I did finally get it to see the new pic file, I would open axe and save as ov2, but I would still end up with poi's default crappy icon.

Has anyone else had this problem?

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