Poi's from SD card to TomTom910

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Hello all. First post on this forum and i need some help please?

Recently my old TomTom 300 drowned a la http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=45183. Embarassed

I managed to recover the SD card and it had retained all the information that i had placed onto it. I then managed to get it onto a reader so i can see the files on the SD card.
I had taken some hours to programme the 300 with all the major Fords in England and Wales onto a POI file, took me ages to do it so would like to have the info again.

Having looked at the info on the old SD card i have found an ov2 and a bmp file listed as Fords. These are 4kb and 2kb respectively. This doesn't seem much for all the info i put onto the 300?

How do i transfer the POI files relating to Fords from the old SD card to the new TomTom910 hard drive?

Thanks in advance

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

Welcome to the forum, POI file are very small so I would say you have found the correct files in the map folder.

Simply copy the ov2 and bmp file named Fords to the PC.
Connect the 910 to the PC.
Copy the ov2 and bmp file from the PC to the Western & Central Europe map folder.

If you want warnings of these locations go to Change Preferences/ Manage POI/ Warn When Near POI.

Are these motor dealership locations or something else? have a look at the POI downloads page Here as you might find some other additional ones that are of use - don't exceed 100 Custom POI Categories though - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Having just been into the poi file on the 910 i notice they are all clusters of three eg

POI listing followed by TomTom.bmp
TomTom.ov2
TomTom.Ov2.ver

The files on the SD card do not have the Ov2.ver file extension, is this why i'm having trouble Question

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

the files with the .ver extension are for the TomTom supplied Speed Cameras, they are not required for normal POI files such as your fords crossing point, I have sent you an e-mail - Mike

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Daggers · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

Your file installs and woks fine on my 910, as you have the files on the PC select both the ov2 and bmp file right click select "Copy" then use Windows Explorer to locate the 910 which will show as a seperate drive letter, open the drive and find the Western And Central Europe Map folder right click on that folder and select "Paste" - that is all I had to do and the 910 picked them up and used them - Mike

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Cassillis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 26

Right now even I'm confused. The tomtom home programme can see the poi file on the hard drive but i still can't access it from the tom tom itself. Sad

Anyone want a 910 Evil or Very Mad

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Have you gone over the 100 user-added categories limit (as mentioned by Mike above)?

Count up the .ov files in your map folder. More than 100 = they start going missing at random.

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