downloading poi's

floydzon · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 15

when I go to download poi's I get to where it says....
Loading POI categories (if this takes more than 1 minute please refresh selected country above)...
but I can not get to go any further than that as it seems to get stuck.....
Im using Google chrome as my browser if that makes a difference...

Is anyone else having a problem!!

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:49 am Post subject:

Have a look at This Topic, which suggests 2 possible remedies.
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Andy_P · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject:

There's something very odd about the code or the way browsers handle it.

Even though I suggested one of them, neither of those work-rounds have worked for me recently (using Firefox). In fact I haven't been able to access the POI downloads using Firefox for months now.

In the past, they haven't worked if I opened the page in Internet Explorer either.
But I tried it in IE just now and the categories loaded first time!

Stop it!

Oldboy · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:25 am Post subject:

I wasn't able to try the suggestions because I've not had the problem for ages.

I'm using FF and visit at least once a week. Confused

Could it be a browser, or ISP, cache issue?
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MaFt · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:18 am Post subject:

A few months ago the database structure and back-end code was changed to speed things up considerably. This seems to coincide with the time that Andy_P has been unable to download and Oldboy has had no issues... All very strange but it has always worked for me Confused

MaFt

Anita · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:04 pm Post subject:

I haven't downloaded POIs for some time because of this problem.

Even using the work arounds hasn't usually worked in FF, but Andy's suggestion of selecting another country as well as UK, refreshing, deselecting the other country, and refreshing again has just worked for me. Confused

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BigPerk · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject:

I've downloaded in CSV format perfectly ok several times with FF recently - just tested again now and still seems fine. So don't think it can be an FF problem specifically.
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pcaouolte · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject:

I have long thought that this is due to the specification of the PC running the browser or the other load on the PC when trying to load the POI list.

On my previous (rather old) PC it was a very frustrating experience as it hardly ever worked. On my work laptop (a bit newer) it would work if the processor wasn't doing anything else (even moving the mouse around prevented the list being displayed). On my nice shiny new PC it works every time.

Changing the browser doesn't seem to make any difference.
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:40 am Post subject:

That makes sense pcaouolte as the list generation is client-side (i.e. it runs on the persons PC rather than being run on the server and fed to the browser) so any slowness on the PC/Mac etc would effect the browser performance in generating the list.

MaFt

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject:

So it's been OUR fault, all along!?! Rolling Eyes

Time for some experiments methinks....

Anita · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:12 pm Post subject:

I've just tried again and the list populated straight away, although my PC's running more slowly today, so it seems to be totally random whether it works for me or not. Unless selecting two countries yesterday has somehow remedied the problem.
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Andy_P · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:06 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:40 am Post subject:

not touched anything. the POI download was lutz's and is now mike's baby!

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:05 am Post subject:

On mine, I frequently don't get the second actual POI list, even after refreshing the country. Sometimes I have to hit the 'download' button, get the error message then go back, and sometimes that does not work.

This is on both my Pentium quad core desktop and my dual core lappy. When I do manage a download, I also get the correct zip file of POIs within the downloaded zip file so I have to unzip twice to get to the files Sad

and I think that some if the iGO ones do not work on iGO, so I have given up.

So c'mon guys, get it sorted. I accept the 'The manufacturer doesn't allow us to SDK' or whatever as the reason for not being able to simplify the cam download/install process, but problems with a straightforward download? Shocked

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:49 am Post subject:

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