How do I store gps position to new poi category?

PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Hi guys. I'm going on a camping holiday shortly, and would like to store the locations of the campsites I visit. I have created a poi category called "My Campsites" to store their locations by gps position. Could somebody inform me of the procedure involved to store my current location on arrival at the campsite.

Kind Regards,

Phil.

PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Oops, sorry folks, forgot to say that I have a TT one V1, 6.150!

46jimbo · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 185

When you are at the campsite, do the following:

Change preferences --- Manage POIs --- Add POI --- (Select Category) --- GPS Position

PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Brilliant! Thanks very much Jimbo Wink

PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Yeah I've just done a "dummy" run, and stored a gps position in "my campsites", but now I cant find a way to navigate there. When I select Navigate to - POI, I only have the options "near you" "in city" or "near home". As allot of these campsites will be out in the countryside, I won't always know exactly which town/village the campsite may come under. Is there a another more direct method to locate the poi? Rolling Eyes

Kind Regards,

Phil.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Those categories still list all the PoI's. They just change the order they are listed.
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PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Thanks for that sgould. I've now managed to locate it by selecting "poi near home", and scrolling down the list. The only trouble is giving the campsite entries descriptive names/information. EG. "Orchard Farm langollen Good" etc. Does anybody know how many characters I can enter for each title?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

It's quite a lot. When looking down the list, if you keep you finger on the name, it will shrink the font size and show the whole name. And the phone number, if you entered it.
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PDY · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 25

Thanks again sgould, really appreciate your help. I entered all the info this morning and it stored & displayed it all perfectly. Laughing

Kind Regards.
Phil.

TomDavison · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

Selecting a POI to navigate to is fine if the category only contains a few. However, if you have a very large database, (the ADAC campsite one for example), how do you select a campsite as a destination when you are a thousand or so miles away. All I've been able to do so far is look on a map to find somewhere nearby, navigate there, and then search for POIs near me. Is there a better way?

andydigital44 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2005 Posts: 193

Easiest way is to select the option poi "near destination" or "near city". City doesn't really mean just a city, it really means any town, village or district.

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

You can use Find to input a part of the Name. It doesn't have to be the first letter or word. TT will do middle of string searches.
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