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jesicar
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 Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: NEWBIE HAVING TROUBLES PLEASE HELP REF POI |
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HI i have just joined and had trawled through various pages and still cannot finf an answer so im hoping you guys and girls out there will help a lady in destress.
I have downloaded tomtom5.1 to mpo2 xda11, everytime i go to POI say petrolstations it shows none, how do i get them on my pda i have seen on this site links for petrol stationsbut it takes me to a page that i have no idea how to get the information to my pda, when i have clicked on petrol stations from this page http://pocketgpsworld.com/tomtompoi.php i then press open and i seepetrol_all.bmp and petrol_all.ov2 this is where i get stuck, so my question is how do i get the info from that page to my pda, many many thanks and hello guys |
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Oldboy
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Hi, and welcome.
The best way to start is to read this Sticky by Privateer. It will get you started on the road to loading POI.
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=21790
When you've had a read of that, and if you're still stuck, come back here again and we'll take it from there.
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jesicar
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hi thanks for the reply, i am really struggling, i didnt really know what to do, i dont understand why my latest download from a cd didnt enter all the poi's when old version did, if you can be of any more help very much appreciated
jess |
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Privateer
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Hi jesicar,
 to the forum! 
| jesicar wrote: | hi thanks for the reply, i am really struggling, i didnt really know what to do, i dont understand why my latest download from a cd didnt enter all the poi's when old version did, if you can be of any more help very much appreciated
jess |
Which CD are you using?
If you want to add POIs, you need to copy the .OV2 and .BMP files (of the same name) to your map folder on the storage card.
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Oldboy
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Also don't firget that there is a limit of 40 POI categories now. If you mean by old version, TTN3, that had a limit of 99 I believe.
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jesicar
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hi thanks for replies, cd is from ebay, when you say restricted to 40 poi's should i delete some.
the ov file when i unzip all it gives me is names and no ov to copy across
feel really silly here, is there anywhere you can send your pda to and pay someone to do it for you
many thanks
jess |
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Oldboy
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| jesicar wrote: | | hi thanks for replies, cd is from ebay, when you say restricted to 40 poi's should i delete some. |
There may be more than 40 POI categories but TT will only see 40 of them. It sees them in the order that it finds them on the card, which usually means the last ones you put in are 'invisible'.
| jesicar wrote: | | the ov file when i unzip all it gives me is names and no ov to copy across |
Presuming that you have Windows, if you go into Folder Option, > View, you Untick the 'Hide Extension for Known File Types' option.
This will allow you to see the .ov2 File Extension, and the .bmp files. These are the pairs of files you transfer for POI use.
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