New POI on the 520 not showing up

airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

This morning I downloaded the Morrisons POI from the Navman sight onto my 520. It's in the Active POI, all the boxes are ticked, & I have set the distance to 0.25 miles & saved the lot. So I take a trip to my local store, pull into the car park and...nothing. So whats suposed to happen? I asumed I would get some sort of audio & visual warning (their logo?)
I'm wondering if any of the other active POI's I have loaded are going to work.

The only thing I am wondering is how up to date is the down load is as Morrisons took over Safeway which the store used to be. Has anyone had it work for a recent takeover or am I doing something wrong. I followed to the letter the steps in the handbook & it looked OK on the PC.

Any clues? Confused

Gee-Pee

Gee-Pee · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

Just for your further information, Airmed, I have just looked at the Morrisons POIs and they do include the old Safeway stores. The download (from getoutguide), not Navman, does have a Morrisons store icon included as bitmap file which you should have used when loading them. If you identify the coordinates of the store (press the point of your Navman's stylus on the Navman screen and the coordinates will be displayed) Make sure they are displayed in decimal (Main Menu > Settings >More settings > Measurements > Decimal Degreees). Note down the coordinates then look at the downloaded POIs for Morrisons and find the same (or close) coordinate in the list. That will at least tell you that your store is listed. Exclamation

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airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

Gee-Pee, sorry I did get the download from getoutguide, thought it was Navman as that is what it's got in the top left hand corner. Still not sure whats going on as coincidentally I drove past a Tesco last night. I have that POI in the unit and, bingo an audible ping and a warning at the bottom of the screen appeared and even a countdown in feet to the store. But no Tesco logo showed, just an odd symbol like a propeller in a circle replacing the triangle. So the unit seems to work but only half cock. Thanks anyway.

hellebore · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Posts: 3

I'm still having fun getting POI installed. Your propellor is the default logo if you do not select one of your own. Asentioned above you should have one in the doenload file you got 0 a *.bmp file.
Good luck!

airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

No luck. Went past the Morrison store again today & nothing. I have checked in the Safety Alerts - Actve POI & everything appears to be there. I have checked on my PC & the logos are there along with the store locations so I asume it was all uploaded to the Navman POI.

I have absolutly no idea what the problem is. Angry

Gee-Pee · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

Gee-Pee,

I've gone back and checked and the file I saved the download to on the PC (a Temp) has the BMP in MGI photosuite4 which is the icon. If I click on that it comes up 'Unknown file format' & the same if I click on the Text Document which is in Notepad. Clicking on the excel bit gets me down to the POI Option window (should the visability slider be min or max& do I have to click & enter each part seperatly?) Do I have to change something on the computer for the BMP?
Question

Gee-Pee · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

I have downloaded the files to Local Disc -Temp file & extracted them. When it does so I have the three files as you say but the Morrisons.bmp defaults to MGIphotosuite4, the text document (POI's)is Microsoft Office Excel Comma Seperated Values File (?) & there is the read-me file. I don't know why it opens this way; it just does. I have saved the Morrisons.bmp to desktop but it is still in MGI. Any clues?

Gee-Pee · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject:

airmed · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

Yeah, might be easier, how do we go about PM as new to all this?

In answer to your questions:

Windows XP, Winzip & yes MGIPhotosuite does allow me to change file type but now I'm in the realms of the unkown. The default is windows bitmap. Others are JPEG Image, portable network graphic? sun raster??? plus a number of others.

Slightly out of my depth now - not brilliant at computers....

Bruce

Froggy · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: New POI on the 520 not showing up

I discovered today that SmartSt 2005 (at least in my case) is putting the POI files in the wrong locations! I had downloaded several POI files which were not showing up - using Explore on Activesync, I was able to see the files sitting loose - they had not been put into the MyPOI folder in the Storage Card folder...

I copied them in manually and all is now well. I discovered in the process that the November and Decemper camera updates had not been applied and the new files overwrote those from October:-)

Froggy

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

At the bottom of each posting there are a group of Icons. Click on PM of the person you want to contact and a page will open. (A bit like email)

Just say what you require and send. Note. The PM sits in the Outbox until the recipient picks the message up.

When you Login next time, look at the top of the page to see if you have a new message.
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Gee-Pee · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

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