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MrSoapsud Lifetime Member
Joined: May 01, 2007 Posts: 47 Location: North West Wales
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: Remember POI categories? |
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Hi,
Is there (or could there be) a way in which the site could remember which POI categories you were interested in, so that you could come back from time to time, download up-to-date copies of them and dump them on the box, without having to go through the list each time remembering all the bits you were interested in?
Just a thought...
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Nice idea.
At the moment, because I do some fairly esoteric mixing and merging of categories to get what I want, I have to have a text file saved on my PC to remind me exactly what to download each time!
As I see it, the perfect solution would be to come to the normal selection page with your last selection still ticked, but so you can add and take away as normal. I wonder if it is possible? |
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PeterSm Lifetime Member
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 49 Location: Leighton Buzzard, UK
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I too think this would be neat..
I tend to download and update my POI's on a regular basis and have written a basic batch script to handle it all..
I downlaod the POI's, Speed Camers etc and unzip them all into a single folder then just run the script to copy those I want to a LoadToSatNav folder/Group folders etc renaming as I go along as well and also clean up in my wake , which I then use as input to POILoader (For my Garmin)
Every so often I then go back through whats left and update the script for next time......
It would be great then if say something userid based could remember that you want CSV format, UK, box 1,3,5,6,7,8,9 etc ticked but guess you'll have to store everyones preferences in the database or a cookie etc.... |
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andy-c1 Lifetime Member
Joined: Feb 05, 2005 Posts: 1039 Location: East Sussex
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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yeah that would be a great idea as i guess mostly at what i want and mostly end up having to delete the 1's i don't need _________________ TomTom 5001 |
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Tom59 Lifetime Member
Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 407 Location: Alconbury - UK
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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I also use a simple Word document to keep a list of what POI I currently have installed and when it was updated. A bit time consuming, but works well for controlling the little blighters!
That was until last night
Our POI have now been given the suffix PGPSW which makes it easier for people to distinguish which supplier their POI have come from. I personally did not have a problem as I only use the best available, PGPSW!
I updated my out of date ones last night, but realised earlier today that I now have duplicates e.g. "Shell" and also "Shell PGPSW", so I have had to have a complete clear out and start again.
Ho Hum, such is life _________________ TT Go 720 (T)
Firmware 9.430. Map: Western Europe V 875.3613
TT iPhone app
V 1.23 Map: Western and Central Europe 2 GB V 965.7286
TT iOS Go Mobile
V 1.1 Map: Western Europe 965.7248 |
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MrSoapsud Lifetime Member
Joined: May 01, 2007 Posts: 47 Location: North West Wales
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Glad it's not just me then! It appears that it remembers your preference for which device type (unlike the safety camera page) but not the files themselves.
I guess one could script fetching the individual categories if there was a URL for them, but the site combines them into a zip file for you so you can't do that either... |
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gpsfox Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 24, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: some where near 51.505357 -0.018679
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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there was a way for this to be done via the program POI edit but the powers to be stopped that i think they should bring it back
heres proof http://poiedit.com/sites.htm |
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Daggers Lifetime Member
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 1096 Location: Solihull, UK
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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gpsfox wrote: | there was a way for this to be done via the program POI edit but the powers to be stopped that i think they should bring it back |
The "powers that be" didn't put a stop to the use of the POIEdit facility - they completely altered the way tht POIs were made available, allowing them to be updated, amended or deleted virtually on the fly. The "new" database is 100% better because it means that POI files don't have to be eleed to the public - the latest data is always available on the site.
Unfortunately, this increased flexibility meant that the new format wasn't suitable for POIEdit. It was a by-product of the new system, not a conscios decision to withdraw the facility. |
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gpsfox Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 24, 2008 Posts: 21 Location: some where near 51.505357 -0.018679
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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here is a copy of the script i use after downloading main categories
this needs to be saves as a .bat file (ie “copy.bat”)
@echo off
xcopy /Y /u "c:\POIS\POIs\*.csv" "c:\POIS\keep"
you can change the ,locations to suite your needs the first part is the source and the second and if u are a tom-tom user change the csv to ov2 _________________ whats on your sat nav |
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