Tom Tom One New Edition Europe Speed Camera Issues !!

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

Just bought the New edition Europe and downloaded the speed camera files. I've backed up my SD card securely and spotted that the system is running V6.5. When I put the .OV2 and BMP files into the western_europe folder and restart the Tom Tom I get no indication of new POI's.

Where do I go from here ....

Advice would be gratefully received ...

Mark B

trevor.dowle · Lifetime Member Joined: 16/06/2003 05:22:14 Posts: 412

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

Welcome, Red_Rover Welcome

Have you enabled them?

From the Help file (links on the left, in red):

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

Thanks for the advice, I'll have another go later this evening !!

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

No joy I'm afraid. I know that the camera files are on the device because when I explore it using the Tom Tom Home software I can see the files under POI's available.

When I disconnect and go to Preferences / Enable POI's however, they are not visible on the scroll bar at all. Equally frustrating is that if I go into Add POI and enter the name of the camera files that I saw in Tom Tom Home then it reports that this POI name is already in use.
So in summary they are on the system but not visible.

Any more suggestions?; I shall download another copy in case I've corrupted anything.

Thanks

Mark

thebinman · Banned Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 770

Does this help: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=46902

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

May be worth a try ... I'm sure it will spring into life soon !!

Mark B

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

Still no joy as such Crying or Very sad

You were correct in thinking that the safety cameras are now accessed from the TomTom Plus services menu but they can only be added by using the wireless link by phone; a service which I don't have and which sort of defeats the object of the downloaded database files. Does anyone know a way round this ?

I have generated some manual POI files for geocaching which went straight into the map folder and came up straightaway so I really don't understand the logic here !

Mark B - Frustrated ....

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:54 am Post subject:

Sorry red-rover, can you just confirm whether you have downloaded the camera POI files from this site or the ones from TomTom themselves?

If it is the TomTom ones, you are right - they are now handled differently.
If it is the normal pocketgps.ov2 ones, then they still work like any other POI files - ov2 and bmp files both go into the map folder.

Can you ignore Home for a minute and look at the contents of the map folder using Windows Explorer? Make sure that it is set to show file extensions (Tools / folder options/View tab) and report back whether you are seeing the files correctly (and give a list if its not too long?)

Red_Rover · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 6

At last, it has all fallen into place. The original fileset was from Tom Tom so needed to be handled differently. The file I downloaded last night from here has worked straight away.

Thanks for all the advice. :D

nelyymcl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 5

Red-rover

please could you advise how you got the Tom tom cameras working as I think I have the same problem.

thanks

thebinman · Banned Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 770

Probably by following this:

.... the TomTom cameras no longer appear in the POI list. You will find them under the 'Safety Camera' menu: main menu / TomTom PLUS service / Safety Camera warnings

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject:

See, red-rover? Newbie to expert/mentor in under 24 hours! Thumbs Up

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