Off Line Traffic News - Traffic POIs for TomTom

barryd · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject:

This program looks like it could be really useful. Thanks for all the hard work that must have gone into creating it.
You mentioned in an earlier reply that you were removing duplicate entries. However, in the files I'm getting there are still a lot of duplicates. I've extracted one of your ov2 files to an asc file and sorted and viewed it in Excel, and would estimate that it could be reduced by between a third and a half if all the duplicates were removed. It would need some care as in most cases the lat, long and description are identical, but in a few the lat and long match but the descriptions are different.
Also, it's a shame that the descriptions need to be truncated to fit the TomTom display limitations. Have you considered doing some editing of the descriptions in order to squeeze in more of the useful text, e.g. by abbreviating county names such as Cambridgeshire to Cambs, or reducing Road to Rd, Greater to Gtr, etc, then you would get more space for the useful info that's currently being discarded?
Other than that, I think it looks great. Thanks again for creating it - I'm looking forward to trying it out over the coming days.
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Cujo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 49

I'm having problems with the new update. Upon downloading and extracting, I'm given 5 files which I assume are CAB files. There is nothing else in the package.

The initial version had the .exe file and pdf file which I have already deleted from my system. Couldn't get the first release to work - XLM error and though I could get the POI category, it never contained any POI files. Every time I switched the computer on, the programme would come up with the message that it had updated even though I hadn't connected to the internet!

How can I get the new version to install?

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

oka97,

Muchoo Grasses for your help, it now works, got an OV2 file full of interesting data.......thanks again.

Did you sort out your prob with tt5, displaying the POI file?

Any suggestions on how I can get rid of the logon window I seem to have aquired via .NET Framework?

Pete :D

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

Cujo,

Five files in the package? The new version is in the same place you got the original from, it's just been updated now goto page 1 of 5 of this thread.

Should just be one exe file named OfflineTrafficNewsSetup.msi

Have you installed .NET Framework 1.1 yet, as this is needed before you can run Offline...

You'll also need to disable proxy settings as detailed in this thread by oka97

Pete

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

rsutcliffe

There are lots of duplications in the POI file created - any way to filter these out?

Pete

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject:

Opps I see it's already been mentioned Embarassed

sjblock · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 03, 2005 Posts: 2

Richard

This is a brill program. Both your original version and newest work straight out of the box on my iPaq 2210.

Only time it fails to sync directly with SD card is if I've accidently left TT5 running.

How about a bbc weather feed similar to the german WetterSync (see http://www.pocketnavigation.de/article/view_94_447/5.6.59.html)?

Bruggen · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

Works brilliantly on my iPaq RZ1710 running TTN5 Thanks for a great program :D

Cujo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 49

Almost there with it now! Only problem left is that the binary file contains 0 bytes so as a result - no POI found.

It may be a proxy thing but I currently have:

Firefox - set as "Direct connection to the internet" and

ie6 - with no settings in the LAN or proxy settings.

Anything else I can check?

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject:

Cujo,

Did you do a re-boot after the changes, as this should now work?

It's only IE6 settings that need changing, Firefox is ok as is.

The 0kb means it's not connecting, your almost there!

Pete

hogbreath · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

Properties>Connections>Settings:-

"Use a proxy server for this connection" should be unticked in IE !!!!

Mearns · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:44 am Post subject:

Excellent software! I haven't yet tried it on my 2210 but have converted the files to asc and viewed them in Autoroute - very useful as an overview before a long journey. Would it be possible to have an option to have the download untruncated so it could be viewed in full in Autoroute?
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SandyMac · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 03, 2005 Posts: 13

Would appreciate some advice. Have successfully installed as previously mentioned but cannot see as POI in TT5. Can view on SD card and saved correctly. Can also view with CheckPOInt. What am I doing wrong?

ccsnet · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject:

rleeden · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

I host various websites, and am willing to run Richard's program and have the ov2 output file available on one of my websites.

Would people find this useful? Would this be OK with Richard?[/quote]
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