Adding French Hotels

Quarkrad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 18

Have TomTom v9 I have downloaded from this site a ov2 and bmp for French Hotels. I have copied them to my map but I'm having trouble 'seeing them'. I was hoping the new hotels would appear within the Hotel/motel set so if I wanted directiond to a hotel I could go - Navigate to.... Point of Interest..... POI in City....... (enter city on next screen) Hotel/motel but they are not there. What I have managed to do,after coping ov2/bmp to my map folder was Change Preferences, Manage POIs, Add POI Catagory. I can navigate to a hotel now by navigating via the new POI catagory I created but I have no idea, or knw if it is possible, to add the French Hotels to the existing Hotel/motel catagory. Any help or a page that explains how to appreciated.[/i]

andy-c1 · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject:

not quite following you with what you have done
but you should download the file and you should end up with 2 files a bmp and a ov2 file which should be placed into your map file that you are using.
then it should be there if you navigate to/ from city etc ..
you can also browse map and you should see all the places if you have the poi enabled
hope this helps
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Quarkrad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 18

Thank you for the reply. What I'm finding is that having added the files - if I Navigate to a POI in a City and select Hotel/motel it is the same list as before I added the ov2/bmp files. I can prove this because I have created a new POI catagory and if I choose that I can see , for example, a ibis hotel. The reason I was hoping the new hotels would be in the TomTom's Hotel/motel catagory is that every time I update with more hotels using my method I have to create new catagories which is rediculous. I'm assuming I'm not doing it properly. Having added the ov2/bmp files to my map how do I make the TomTom aware and how do I tell it what catagory the files belong to?

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

The category that you will need to select (after you have entered the City name), will be the same name as the name on the OV2 file you copied to the Folder.

The TomTom does not merge the new file in to the existing data. It will be a separate category entry who's name will match the name of the Files you download and copy to the Unit.

The other point is, are you copying the files in to the Folder called map, or the Folder that is your current Map Folder? Called United Kingdom and Ireland, Western Europe, or something similar.
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Quarkrad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 18

Thanks - I think I'm understanding how it works a little. Are we saying then that if we download French hotels POI and install it on the Tomtom we cannot (effectively) add the new hotel to the list currently in the TomTom under its own Hotel/motel poi catagory? If we call the files Fr_Hotels.ovs/bmp then we have to create a new catagory for them, e.g. French Hotels. So, if in a years time, we download the same files (assuming it has new hotels added) and call it Fr_Hotels.ov2/bmp again and put it in the map folder then the French Hotel catagory will be updated? So you can update catagories that you create (but you have to use the same file(s) name) but you cannot update TomTom's own built in catagories. The map I have is Alps plus major roads of Western Europe and I put the ov2/bmp files in is folder together with all the .dat, .met files for the map. I am interested in France and Spain and thought that if I downloaded the POI's for these countries and called them Fr_Hotels.ov2/bmp and Sp_Hotels.ov2/bmp then the new hotels would appear under the TomTom's internal Hotel/motel POI catagory. It looks to me it doesn't work this way. Perhaps I have to create two new POI catagories - French Hotels and Spain Hotels. (I believe I can combine them into one file but if my logic is right I would still have to create a new catagory. Or is there a way of getting the new Hotels into TomTom's own Hotel/motel catagory?).

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:25 pm Post subject:

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